CHAPTER XVI
MORE MYSTERIES
"I know what we'll do," decided Grace as the three young scouts discussed the secret correspondence with the man o' the woods. "We must tell Margaret Slowden. She knows best and Margy wonders what we are whispering about all the time."
"Yes," promptly agreed Madaline. "I think that is the best plan. Margaret said the other day we were acting as if we had a troop of our own instead of being True Treds."
"We would be perfectly safe in telling Margaret," Cleo followed. "And she can help us best because she has already received a merit badge."
"And lost it," added Grace.
"Received another," amended Madaline.
"I feel a little timid about all the woodsy part," admitted Cleo, "because we haven't any way of finding out about our cave man except spying on him, and that would be so risky it would demerit instead of meriting us. You know we all had to promise to be prudent," she finished.
"But we won't tell the twins," Grace restricted, "that would spoil the whole secret."
So it was arranged that Margaret Slowden should be admitted to the inner circle, and after school that afternoon the marvelous story was told.