“Smoke will be the main thing we’ll have to look out for,” Bob declared.
“But we’ll have to do some cooking I suppose.”
“How about taking an oil stove along?”
“I hadn’t thought of that. Won’t it be too bulky to carry? And then there’s the oil.”
“There’s a little collapsible stove on the market that we can easily carry and a couple of gallons of oil will probably last us,” Bob explained.
“That would be just the thing,” the captain declared. “Suppose you and I go out and see if we can find one.”
They had to visit several stores before they found what they wanted but finally they succeeded and returned to the room in high spirits.
“That’s the one thing that has worried me more than anything else,” Captain Jim said as he exhibited the stove to the others. “Isn’t it a dandy stove?”
“Just the thing I should say,” Captain Brice agreed. “These boys of ours seem to have an answer for everything.”
“And you don’t half know them yet,” Captain Jim told him.