"Let's go over there and see him."
"You're going to try to take the ride with us, then?" asked Mart.
"I think so."
"Bully!" glowed Mart, who, like most of the younger boys of Gridley, was a great admirer of the leader of Dick & Co.
Billy Heckler, a man of thirty, was, indeed, to be found at his stand.
"Dick wants to go up to Lake Pleasant with us on Monday," Mart began, but Dick quickly added:
"I understand, Mr. Heckler, that you're going up to the lake without a load."
"Yes," nodded the truckman.
"Then it struck me that perhaps I could arrange with you to take up our canoe and some bedding, and also let the fellows ride on the wagon."
"How many of you are there?" inquired Billy Heckler.