There won't be anybody to interfere with the fun." "Well, yes," replied Fuz, "and I'd just as lief not see too much of him before that.

He won't have any special claim on us, neither, if he doesn't go there from our house." That was a queer sort of calculation, but it was only a beginning.

They had other talks on the same subject, and the tone of them all had in it a promise of lively times at Grantley for the friendless young stranger from India.
Others, however, were thinking of the future, as well as themselves; and Joe and Fuz furnished the subject for more than one animated discussion among the boys down there by the Long Island shore.

Ford Foster gave his two friends the full benefit of all he knew concerning his cousins.
"It's a good thing for you," he said to Frank, "that the steamer didn't go ashore anywhere near their house.

They're a pair of born young wreckers.