"I'll handle them," he said.
"Well, we'll both handle them," said Scoutmaster Ned.
A little farther along the road Safety First said, "I don't see why the road was closed off. It seems to me to be all right."
Pee-wee was now sufficiently subdued to think and speak calmly, and he said, "That feller with the shirt put it there; he said he read the signal. I guess he's crazy, hey?"
"Oh, the fellow with the shirt?" queried Fido Norton, humorously.
"I seem to remember a shirt," said Nick.
"That was it," Pee-wee said.
"He was just a little rube," said Charlie Norris.
"He's the one that said I was a thief," said Pee-wee. "I told him I could prove I was a scout by eating a potato a certain way."
"And he didn't take you up?" said Scoutmaster Ned.