And the enthusiastic fellow struck his friend a resounding whack on the shoulder.
"Sh!" warned Wharton, "we must talk low, for some of them may be near us."
"Why didn't ye sind word to me, so that I could have stood by ye and cheered ye on and watched the sight? Wouldn't it have been a treat!"
"I would have been proud if you and the rest of our friends could have been there, for I did better than I thought I could."
The friends told the particulars of what had happened to each other since their separation. Happy, indeed, were they in their reunion.
"Whart," said Larry a few minutes later, "I knowed there was something I'd forgot."
"What's that?"
"I'm as hungry as I can be."
"So am I, and have been for hours; I wish there was some way of getting supper, but I know of none. There is something else, however, that is more important than supper."
"And what is that?"