Part 15 (1/2)
”I don't think this story is going to a as a yarn,” Cub announced with a look of superior wisdom
”Why not?” asked his father
”Because there's no villain in it I never did like a story with a ta, and the worst kind of a story on earth is one that starts with a thrill and ends with a nap in a sunparlor”
Laughter greeted this grotesque contrast
”I don't think you need expect any such up-shot in this affair,” Mr
Perry advised
”Do you expect a villain to show his hand?” Bud inquired
”It seems to me that we have some villains in the plot already”
”Who are they?” asked Hal
”How about those sophomores who kidnapped your cousin and marooned him here?”
”Oh, they're only play villains,” Cub put in disdainfully
”How do you know they wouldn't do so worse than haze freshmen?”
”I don't; but until they do they're just play villains, and that doesn't interest me”
”I see,” Mr Perry observed; ”you want people to be either very good or very bad”
”No,” Cub returned slowly ”I wouldn't put it that way; I don't want anybody to be bad at all; but the fact of the ood ood story you think it is necessary to bring good people and bad people together, eh?”
”Well, that's what et you now,” said Mr Perry ”You're fond of spectacular things”
”No, I wouldn't put it that way,” Cub replied; ”but I don't like to see anybody ood Noe've started out with a glorious bluff at so to prove to be just an ordinary hazing affair”
”It looks toor not,” returned his father
”And you think we'll find a villain if we investigate it to the end?”
”Why, sure,” Mr Perry smiled ”I shouldn't be surprised if we'd find Captain Kidd's treasure buried on this island”