“Couldn’t have been better,” admitted Jack, “if I do say it myself.”
“But won’t they find out who did it?” asked Bony.
“They may suspect, but they’ll never know for sure,” said the perpetrator of the trick.
“How about the bundle of papers you left in the tree?”
“Nothing but newspapers, and they can’t talk. But I guess we’ve livened things up some. Anyhow, they’ve spoken to each other.”
“They sure have,” admitted Sam, as from the darkness, at the foot of the tree, came the sounds of voices in high dispute.
The next day Professor Socrat passed Professor Garlach without so much as a look in the direction of the German, but when he got past he muttered:
“Ze La Fayette tree still stands.”
And Professor Garlach replied:
“Pig-dog vot you are! To destroy dot secret of history!”