Pee-wee said to her, “You’d better be ready to run.”
I said, “I’m ready to go scout-pace for ten miles. I’m glad a scout can run.”
I guess that big army all rolled into one with the brass buttons must have known it was our crowd because he didn’t come right away. Gee whiz, I pictured him getting madder and madder every second. I was ready to jump from the porch to the middle of the street. Pee-wee had one leg all ready for a good starter. All the while Dora Dane Daring kept pounding on the door and pushing the button.
All of a sudden the door opened. That’s the end of this chapter.
CHAPTER XXV
PEE-WEE’S LOSS
Pee-wee gave a sudden start, then stopped. We all kind of stood back a little. Westy and Dorry stayed by the railing. We were all ready to retreat in disorder. There was that great big man filling up the whole doorway and his brass buttons shining. He looked like the Allied Army. She just shouted right in his face,