We will honor and obey Akela all the way
And on that twelfth birthday
Good Scouts we’ll be!’”
At the end of the song, all the Cubs gave the salute, two fingers raised to their foreheads. Then the meeting began to break up.
“Brad, if you and Dan will stay here with Jacques, I’ll go home for my car,” the Cub leader said. “Then we can get him down the stairs and directly into the automobile. It shouldn’t take me long.”
“We’ll be glad to wait,” Dan offered eagerly.
After Mr. Hatfield had gone, the Cubs and their fathers began to drift off home. Soon only Mrs. Holloway, her son Midge, Brad and Dan remained.
“I’ll wait for Mr. Hatfield,” the Den Mother said. “He should be coming soon.”
“I see a car parking now on the road across from the beach,” Brad observed. From where he stood near the Cave doorway, he could view the entire river front.
“Then I’ll run along,” Mrs. Holloway said, gathering up hamper and thermos bottles. “Good-bye, Jacques. I’ll certainly see you tomorrow.”