"Some of them are pretty big, but I have a feeling in my bones that they'll go through."
"Good for old Roger's bones!" commended James. "May we venture to ask what some of them are?"
"'Nothing venture, nothing have,'" quoted Roger. "I'm merely saying now, however, that the biggest scheme is one that I told Grandfather Emerson about the other day and he said he'd help by giving us the house for it."
"What should we do that would need a house?"
"What do you mean—house?"
Roger grinned delightedly at the commotion he had caused.
"This plan I have is so big that we'll have to get the grown-ups to help us, but we'll do most of the carrying out ourselves in spite of that."
"I should think we would have to have their help if your plan calls for a house."
"You needn't be sarcastic, young woman. This is a perfectly good scheme—Grandfather said so. He said it was so good that he was willing to back it and to help us by supplying the house we should need."
"Poor old Roger—gone clean crazy," sighed James.