"I don't like the kids any better than you do, but one of them saved my life to-day, and I'm not going into anything that will harm them." "Hear him rave!" sneered Jack.

"Why last night, when we talked it over, you thought it would be a prime joke.

It isn't as if it would hurt them.

It'll just give them something to study up, that's all.
They think they're such fine trailers and tracers that it would be a shame not to give them a chance to show what they can do." "That's right, Sam," cut in Bill; "it's more of a joke than anything else." "Well," agreed Sam weakly, "if you put it in that way, I suppose it's all right; but I tell you I don't like it." "Why, you'll have the laugh of your young life after we've pulled the stunt off," remarked Bill.

"When will we do it, Jack ?" "Not to-night, that's certain," responded the other.