“What’s got into you?” the latter asked. “You look like a great scientist that’s just made a wonderful discovery.”
Bob roused himself and laughed.
“I was just thinking,” he said.
“About what?”
“Africa. Gorillas like this fellow here. Lions. Wild elephants. Tall forest giants. Adventure.”
“Wow!” cried Joe. “You’ll have me running around in circles. You know,” he went on more seriously, “it’s up to us to get our dads in the notion of going to Africa very soon now. And we’ll have to make them let us go along. They——”
He stopped abruptly and smiled sheepishly as he caught sight of two men standing beside him. Those men were none other than Mr. Lewis and Mr. Holton.
“What th——” cried Bob, who had also seen.
“Didn’t expect to find us here, did you?” asked Mr. Holton with a grin.
“And you said you weren’t coming!” roared Bob. He looked about.