“That’s so,” said Bob. “We will have kind of a blow out all by ourselves.”

“And shall we do the town afterwards, as the bloods say?” asked Tom.

“What does ‘doing the town’ mean?” asked Herbert. The expression was new to him.

“It’s goin’ round and seeing the sights,” replied Bob. “But come, let’s be movin’. We can talk about doin’ the town while we are at dinner.”

“So I say,” said Tom, with characteristic hunger.


CHAPTER XXII.

THE GREAT BANQUET.

“Gewhittaker! this is splendid, Bob. I didn’t think we was coming to no such tony place as what this is,” said Tom Flannery.