Caustically, the agent remarked, “I hope that some day you will be kind enough to give me a ride in her.”
“We will,” they answered and laughed heartily.
Wallace, however, was a bit puzzled. “But, Major,” he asked, “What about the plane you were supposed to buy for us.”
“I almost did,” was the reply. “But when Tom told me, I cancelled the deal. Now you can use the money to run this plane.”
“Hooray!” they cheered.
The boys were happy. They walked around the machine and caressed it. “We ought to give it a name,” suggested Jack.
“How about calling it ‘Stanhope’?” asked Paul.
“No, that name is not a very good one,” objected Ken. “You have the Stanhope Drug Store, the Stanhope Vegetable Market, the—”
“How about calling it ‘The Cave’?” Jack had spoken and all the boys looked. “You get my meaning?” he asked.
“Of course.”