“Well, what in the world is happening to us?”
“We’re jinxed!” cried Ned.
Bob said nothing.
“Why don’t you add to the general hilarity?” asked Jerry.
“Well, I—I’m—stumped!” murmured the stout lad.
“If that’s all you can think of to say you might better have kept still,” laughed Ned. “We sure have been up against it to-day!”
“About as bad luck as we ever had,” admitted Jerry. “Still it might be worse.”
“The worst is yet to come,” quoted Bob, with a laugh. They all joined in, for, after all, there was a funny side to the whole thing.
“Did that sign where the red lantern was say the left road went to Fordham?” asked Jerry.
“No, it didn’t say that,” admitted Ned. “But it didn’t say anything about any other road. There wasn’t any choice.”