So he was going up to your house anyway and Skinny cried and hung onto him, and begged him not to.
I guess he went on kind of crazy, but he said he was sure because he knew the Morse Code.

Anyway, just to humor him, I guess, Jake promised him he'd wait till early in the morning, and meanwhile you came home.

Do you see ?" Honest, I couldn't answer him.
"Skinny was the one who did it," he said.

"That accounts for his tracks, don't you see ?" I shook my head to show him I understood.

But I couldn't say it.
"And that's how tracking and signalling have brought the three of us together--see ?" Westy said.