"Why?" he asked as he sat down.
"I got caught," said Henry.
Tommy whistled his surprise.
"Did the kids (meaning Paul and Wendell) tell?" he asked.
"Nope; Miss Wallace come to see how sick I was."
"What'd your father say?" snickered Tom.
"Said he'd see us in the mornin'. Say, Tom, what's this club for that your ma and mine are gettin' up?"
"I dunno," replied Tommy, "only I heard pop say we was goin' to have a tablet, kind of a tombstone, you know, in the yard that told on it when the club was foundered or somethin' like that; and this mornin' he told Dora that he wished the tablet was goin' to be put up right away with the date the club died on it, too."
"Are they goin' to play ball?" asked Wendell.
"Women don't play ball," said Paul.