“I never said that!” cried Pee-wee, indignantly. “Don’t you believe him, I never said that!”
“So we’ve been a long time getting around to it,” continued Roy.
“That’s ridiculous,” said the girl. “I thought you just came to see me.”
“So we did,” said Roy.
“And we’re going to tell you our adventures since we saw you,” added Pee-wee. “We’ve had some dandy ones. One in particular that you’ll like to hear about,” he added, with an air of mystery.
“When anybody does anything for a scout,” Tom began again in his sober way, “he has to remember it and do them a good turn. We couldn’t do you one because we couldn’t think of anything big enough——”
“You see, I’ll tell you how it is,” interrupted Pee-wee, “each good turn’s got to be better than the other one—they get bigger—kind of, and——”
“That’s nonsense,” said Ruth. “Then I’d have to do you a bigger one to pay back and you’d have to—”
“We think we’ve hit on a pretty good one,” said Roy. “Anyway, how’s the bird?”
“Oh, he’s fine! He can say ‘Good-night’ and ‘Welcome, home’!”