SETTLING WITH A TEASER Saturday morning, about eight o'clock, the entire team of the Central Grammar met at Dave Darrin's house.

In the front yard they waited for their captain.
"Queer Dick should be a bit late," muttered Torn Reade.

"He's our model of punctuality." "You'll see him come around the corner 'most any minute," Greg predicted.
Nor was Holmes wrong in this.

When Prescott arrived he came on a jog trot.
"We wondered what kept you, our right-to-the-minute captain," announced Dave.
"Well, you see," replied Dick quizzically, "I've been thinking." "Thinking ?" repeated Tom.

"Oh, I understand.