A BIG IDEA They had been driving the cows home during this learned exposition on scouting.

Two things were now perfectly clear to Pepsy's simple mind.
One, that she would be loyal at any cost, loyal to her new friend, and through him to all the scouts.

She knew them only through him.

They were a race of wonder-workers away off in the surging metropolis of Bridgeboro.

She could not aspire to be one of them, but she could be loyal, she could "stick up" for them.
The other matter which was now settled, once and for all, was that it was all right to throw a tomato at a person you hated provided only that you hit the mark.