“Cut it out,” said Westy. “They’ll be back in an hour. What are we going to do?”
“We are not going to do anything until the silent hour of midnight,” said Roy. “Then we are going to make reprisals.”
“How do you make those?” called Westy.
“That’s some word, all right,” said Ed.
“I tracked that all the way through the Standard Dictionary,” said Roy.
“How about Mr. Ellsworth?”
“He has announced his policy of strict neutrality,” said Roy. “The field is ours! The obnoxious post-card will be ours if you, brave scouts, will do your part! For one month now has that obnoxious post-card hung in the Ravens’ tent. For one month has Pee-wee Harris smiled his smile and gone unshaved—I mean unscathed. Shall this go on?”
“No! No!”
“Shall it be said that the Silver Foxes are not Sterling silver but only German silver?”
“Never!”