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They may be rotten scouts, Blakeley, but they're A-1 sports. They're having a pennant made in Catskill. They're going to fly it over the tent. It says Camp McCord." "I don't see how you did all this so soon," I told him; "I wish you'd tell me about the rescue." "Row quicker," he said, "I've got to see my patrol and get some duds and beat it back by the road. They'll understand.
Just the same as the winter is best because the spring comes after it. As Roy Blakeley would have said, "You can do that by algebra." But there is nothing, either before or after, to make algebra good. As Jim Burton's big Packard car sped along, the country looked bleak and the fields wan with their yellow corn-stalks.
There were others, too, with attainments less conspicuous and who were not in this gala troop, but the whole camp was out to honor its heroes, one and all. Roy Blakeley, of the Silver Foxes, had a wooden rattle which he claimed could be heard for seven miles eight miles and a quarter at a pinch.
They lived in a big sandstone mansion fronting the Hudson and it was with some misgiving that I sent up my card. Both Mrs. Blakeley and her other daughter, however, met me in the reception-room, thinking, perhaps, from what I had written on the card, that I might have some assistance to offer. Mrs. Blakeley was a well-preserved lady, past middle-age, and very nervous.
I dare say it was good advice, but the trouble was that Lucky Luke was probably born on a Friday, and there was no straightening that out. As to whether he would turn the world upside down to straighten out some little error, perhaps Pete was right there, too. Roy Blakeley had once said that if Tom dropped his scout badge out of a ten-story window, he'd jump out after it.
Roy Blakeley heard these words as in a dream, and even Peewee was silent. The others of Roy's troop looked at each other but said not a word. No indeed, we should feel like usurpers if there were any question of friendly preference.
Then he said, "Now, Blakeley, there's only one way to get down there and that's to jump. It's pretty deep, but the main question is, 'is it wide enough? If it is well, I'm a tiger and I ought to manage it." I didn't know then, but I found out afterward that when a tiger makes a leap out of a tree he rolls over when he hits ground and turns a sort of summersault, so as to break the shock.
I've been double-crossed, that's all. It means I must quit." "Of course. I'm trying to figure out what it will mean to me." Runnels smiled grimly. "The same thing it would mean to me if I stayed, I'd go back to my desk; in a month I'd have a row with Blakeley, no matter what I did; then I'd be fired and have a tough time getting a job with another railroad.
"Now, there is nothing cinched yet, understand," the Acting Superintendent cautioned him. "We're all on probation, but if we make good, I think we'll stick." "I'll do my best to fill your shoes." "And I have the inside track on Blakeley, in spite of Colonel Jolson, so I'm not alarmed. The break came sooner than I expected, and now that we chaps are in control it's the chance of our lifetimes."
"Pretty soon he heard Jake's boat coming up the river and saw the light and he just waited there and when Jake come up alongside the float, the first thing Skinny heard him say was, Roy Blakeley is dead didn't you, Skinny?" But I could see that Skinny's eyes were shut now and he didn't hear. "Go on," I said. "So Skinny told him it wasn't true, and told him about the signal.
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