"I'm sorry," she said. "If there is anything I can do--"
Jack stood a couple of yards away, whistling shrilly. At a word from
Ned the old lady stepped out into the open air, half closing the door
after her. From the inside came the heavy tread of Bradley
approaching the door.
But before the visitor gained the threshold Ned and Mrs. Bradley had
exchanged half a dozen short sentences, and when Bradley looked out
she was saying.
"I shall look for you if you ever come this way again."
"I'll surely be back, some bright day!" laughed Ned, and the two boys
walked on.
"Well," Jack said, as they left the cabin behind, "of all the fire-
proof, enthusiastic, gilt-edged, slicky-slick members of the Ananias
club I ever heard mentioned, you certainly take the bakery! What did
you go and tell Bradley we were going out for?"
"Because," Ned answered, "we are going out."
"Not by day after to-morrow?"
"I hope so! We ought to get ready by that time!"
"I don't ask any more questions!" grumbled Jack. "I don't know hot
from cold! I'm deaf and dumb and blind from this minute on. Uncle Ike
has a classical education in comparison with what I know. Go to it,
Neddie, boy!"
They stopped at the cave and Ned wrote a note to the effect that they
were going out inside the limit set, placed it in a conspicuous place
on the shelf with the dies, and then the two boys set out for camp.
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