"To meet when?"
"When the president calls us," said Ethel Blue.
"And we'll all have our eyes and ears open so as to give her information so she'll have something to call us for."
Picking up the honorary member and setting him on his shoulder Roger led the procession back to the lake front, and so ended the first meeting of the United Service Club which was to fill so large a part in the lives of all its members for several years to come.
CHAPTER XII
OLD FIRST NIGHT
FOR several days after the fire Dicky had been far from well and Mrs. Morton had taken him out of the kindergarten. As he recovered his balance, however, it became evident that he would be very lonely in the mornings when all the rest of the family were away at their different occupations if he, too, did not have some regular task. He was so much stronger and taller than the other children at the kindergarten that Roger, who was proud of his manliness, urged his mother to let him join the Boys' Club.
"Will they take boys as young as he is?"