I said, “If it wasn’t for Warde Hollister I’d take him into my patrol. I’ve got every kind of a freak in there now except a ghost.”
“You haven’t got me,” Pee-wee shouted.
I said, “No, that’s one kind of a freak I haven’t got.”
“If you could have a ghost and a bandit in this patrol we’d be complete,” Westy said.
“I’m bad enough,” Warde Hollister said.
I said, “Sure, we’re satisfied if you are. Take us for better or worse; you’ll probably find us a good deal worse.”
Warde said, “It’s been good fun so far.”
“You haven’t seen anything yet,” I told him. “Wait till you get up to Temple Camp. Even the laughing brook is all the time giggling at us. Wait till you see the raving Ravens.”
“That’s all right,” Pee-wee piped up. “Up there people in the village always smile at us—grown-up people.”