“Even if you get into the wrong automobile it might be good,” our young hero said. “Maybe, kind of, there might be times when the wrong thing is better than the right one. That doesn’t stop anybody from being a hero, does it?”
Harry said, “Not at all.”
“Well then,” Pee-wee said, “do you know Shakespeare?”
“I never met him,” Harry said.
“Don’t you know he’s dead?” the kid shouted.
“I didn’t even know he was sick,” Harry came back.
“He was smarter than you are,” the kid hollered at him, “and he said, ‘All’s well that ends well’ because it’s in my copy book. That means it’s good to make a mistake, if you can do a good turn. See? What’s the difference between two Cadillacs? Even suppose we got into the wrong one and drove away and then found——”
By now everybody there was laughing and Mrs. West kept whispering to her daughter that Pee-wee was “excruciating” and “just too cute.” I guess they were beginning to see how it was.
“There’s your valuable stuff,” the kid said; “that’s the main thing, isn’t it?”
Mrs. West was awful nice. She said, “Indeed it’s the main thing, and how can we ever thank you? But tell us all about how it happened. I don’t care anything about mistakes or accidents. You’ve brought us back our things—and it’s wonderful.”