"The who?" wondered Tad.
"Oh, a fellow with two handles to his name, but without any name to nail them to," answered Stacy.
"He means Charlie John," explained Ned.
"Charlie John? That is a funny name," smiled Butler.
"It might be handy, too. In case you woke up and wanted to say something to him in a hurry, it wouldn't make any difference whether you called him John Charlie or Charlie John or just plain Charlie or just plain John," said Chunky. "Handy kind of name, isn't it?"
Tad agreed that it was, especially for lazy folks, to which Ned and Walter also agreed most heartily.
"When is this man with the double-back-action name expected?" asked Tad.
"Oh, today sometime," replied Vaughn. "Today with Charlie means any time between midnight last night and midnight tonight, so we might as well make up our minds to remain here until tomorrow. We shall get an early start in the morning and make a good bit of a hike tomorrow, and we'll be in the woods some time tomorrow."
"Over yonder?" asked Tad, nodding toward the dark blue ridge on the horizon. "How far it it?"
"About twenty miles as the crow flies."