“Well, that’s one good thing about the place anyway,” I told him. “If what you say is true there ought to be a lot of fun there.”
“If what did I say is true?” the kid shouted.
“That you’re not going there,” I said.
“How can I not go to a place when I don’t know where it is?” he yelled.
“That’s the right question to the answer,” I said. “I say, we five start to-morrow morning. It won’t take us long because if we don’t know where we’re going we ought to be back by some time or other.”
“Oh, long before that,” said Brent.
“You’re all crazy!” Pee-wee yelled.
“Now you’re talking sense,” I said.
CHAPTER VI
WE START
So the next morning the five of us started out. We were a kind of a rainbow patrol because we belonged to different troops. But anyway we were all scouts—especially Hervey Willetts, because he’s an out-and-out scout on account of being out all the time.