“I don’t know,” I said, “but we’re going to have a game of checkers anyway.”
“I’m with you,” Will Dawson said.
I said, “All right, there are five of us and we’ll challenge the world.”
“That’s us,” Westy said.
“That’s me, too,” the inventor shouted. “I hope we get in a lot of danger, hey?”
“Don’t lose your lives playing checkers,” Hunt Manners said.
“Don’t risk your young lives up at the Lyric Theatre,” I told him. “Be careful when you’re crossing Main Street.”
“Don’t let the mosquitoes eat you up,” Charlie Seabury said.
“Thanks,” I told him. “Look out you don’t get run over by a baby carriage.”
“We’re going to start for Temple Camp in the morning,” Dorry said, very grouchy.