onclusively.

"Here comes the bus," Westy said. "Do you go up in that?"

"I guess I'll walk," Blythe said.

"Well, we'll be up there to-morrow, sure," Doc Carson reassured him;
"some of us anyway. Even if we don't come to stay we'll be up there, so
you look for us."

"I'm fair and square," Blythe said. "When you come you can look the
place over and then say--"

"You should worry about that," Roy interrupted him.

"Maybe your people--"

"You leave our people to us," Roy said. "My father believes in camping
and fun--he inherits that from me. Scouts know how to pick out fathers
all right."

Their new friend smiled again, with a kind of simple pleasure at Roy's
nonsense, "I'll look for you," he said. Then they parted.

"He's got some walk all the way up to Camp Merritt," Doc Carson said.
"Do you suppose he hasn't any money?"

"Looks that way," said Westy.

"I kind of like him," Doc said. "I guess he's in hard luck all right.
I'm glad we met him."

"I'm the one that did it," Pee-wee shouted. "Didn't I say for us all to
go into Bennett's? Now you see!"

"All we have to do is to follow you," Roy said, "and adventures come
around wanting to eat out of our hands."

"And I--I'm the one to show you where there's money too," Pee-wee said.
"I'm a capital or whatever you call it."

"You're the smallest capital _I_ ever saw," Roy said.

CHAPTER IV

PEE-WEE FIXES IT

The concerted assault which the scouts made upon their parents for
permission to proceed with their plan ended in a compromise. Late that
same afternoon Mr. Ellsworth, scoutmaster of the troop, drove up to the
old camp in his auto and looked over the situation. He talked with
Blythe also and was evidently not unfavorably impressed, for he returned
to Bridgeboro quite converted to the enterprise.

"He's a queer kind of a duck," he said to Mr. Blakeley, referring to
Blythe. "I think he's out of luck and rather discouraged. He doesn't say
much. I think he took this job in desperation not knowing exactly how he
was going to go ahead with it. He expects to get three hundred dollars
for what he's undertaken. He means to divide evenly, he said, but of
course that will leave him with only twelve dollars, if the whole troop
goes up. He doesn't seem to have any grasp of things at all.

"I proposed to him that he keep one hundred dollars for himself and give
the boys the other two hundred. This fellow has lost his grip and I
doubt if he'll do much w