“We’ll make it yet,” promised Mr. Livingston. “Next summer maybe.”
“Sounds great!” approved Ken, stretching luxuriously on the hotel sofa. “There’s only one drawback.”
“What’s that?” asked Jack.
“A vacation without bandits might seem dull.”
“Different anyhow,” contributed War.
“Maybe so,” drawled Jack. “All the same, it will seem mighty good to open that old Post log book again—to start once more where we left off.”
Thinking of the reunion they would have with their friends and fellow Scouts, the Explorers all became silent. Two wonderful vacations in South America had conditioned them to high adventure! And even more was in store.
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- Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and dialect unchanged
- Retained the original’s inconsistent italicization of Spanish words.
- In the text versions, delimited italics text in _underscores_ (the HTML version reproduces the font form of the printed book.)
- This eBook, following the printed version, inconsistently italicizes Spanish words.