"Now, we'd all better go to bed," Mr. Perry announced after Hal had tapped goodnight to the Watertown scribe.
"We ought to arrange some watches first," Bud urged, unforgetful of his prediction that something was going to happen before morning.
"Why do you think something more is going to happen?" inquired Hal. "You're a good forecaster, Bud, for your prediction has been fulfilled already. Something did happen when I caught that reporter and gave him our story."
"I'll say so," Cub "slanged" wisely. "We'll all have to take our hats off to you, tee-hee."
"Hal hasn't tee-heed for twenty-four hours in my hearing," Mr. Perry said reprovingly.
"That's right, Cub," declared Bud. "A little while ago I heard him laugh right down deep from his lungs."
"Out-door exercise is working wonders for him," Cub opined with deductive superiority.
"Well, anyway," said Mr. Perry; "I agree with Bud that we ought to have some watches to-night. I believe in taking warning from Bud's prediction. There are five of us. Who wants the first watch?"
Nobody answered.
"I'll take the watch beginning about 1:30 o'clock," said Bud. "If anything happens, it'll be between then and 2:30."