But Curtis was merely cautious. On the Fourth of July, as Dick was condescendingly helping his “kid” brother in the serious task of setting off fireworks, a telegram was brought to him, dated at Mt. Desert, and bearing this simple legend:—
“In clear except for Dutch. Meet you Soldiers’ Field, September.
“John Curtis.”
Dick’s last half-dollar went for fireworks to celebrate the news.
- Transcriber’s Notes:
- Missing or obscured punctuation was corrected.
- Unbalanced quotation marks were left as the author intended.
- Typographical errors were silently corrected.
- Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book.