"Well, to start with," began the doctor's son. "How would you like to go camping again?"
"Fine!"
"Great!"
"Couldn't be better!"
"Just as I thought," continued Shep. "And just what I told my father. He wants us to go out, you know," and Shep's eyes began to twinkle.
"He wants us to go out?" asked Whopper. "You mean he is willing for you to go?"
"No, he told me to ask you if you wanted to go out—-for him."
"Mystery on mystery," came from Giant. "For him? I don't understand."
"Neither do I," came simultaneously from Snap and Whopper.
"Will, it's this way, to tell you the whole story. Can you keep a secret?"