"Positively," said Warde Hollister.
"Positively what?" asked Connie Bennett.
"It's all the same to me, only different," said Roy. "Only this is what I was thinking. We all have supper at different times except Pee-wee and he has supper all the time. As Abraham Lincoln said at the battle of Marne, 'Some people are half hungry all the time, some people are all hungry half the time, but Pee-wee is all hungry all the time.' I wonder where he is anyway?"
"Down in Bennett's having a soda, I guess," said Westy Martin.
"Is he going to the party?" Tom Warner asked.
"Search me," said Westy. "I guess not, he doesn't dance. I heard somebody say he was with some fellows up the river."
"Starting a new bunch of patrols, I suppose," said Roy.
"Bentley's gardener saw him somewhere," said Wig Weigand.
"It's just possible he was somewhere," said Roy. "I've often known him to go there. Let's talk of something pleasant. What do you say we get a light supper down here. Anybody that wants to go home and dress can do it only he has to hustle. She wants us to wear our scout suits anyway, she said so. I say let's get a few eats down here and then wash up and all hike it up there together. United we stand——"
"What are we going to eat?" Grove Bronson asked. "I don't see anything here but some fishhooks and a package of tacks."