“We mightn’t be able to get the field Saturday. Besides, it’ll take me two or three days, I guess, to find a team. Let’s say a week from today.”
“All right. It’ll be piles of fun. You call your nine the ‘Towners’ and I’ll call mine the ‘Spaniards.’ Couldn’t you go after your fellows today?”
Toby hesitated. “Maybe. I guess there isn’t anything to do here. I might start after dinner.”
“Good! And I’ll beat it around the Head this afternoon and see who I can get hold of. There are two or three fellows I don’t know very well, but that doesn’t matter, I guess. I wish your folks had a telephone so that I could call you up this evening and see how you’d got along.”
“Dad says telephones waste too much time. Why don’t you come over in the launch? It’s moonlight now.”
“I suppose I could,” replied Arnold doubtfully. “I’ve never run her at night, though.”
“Better begin, then. It’s no harder than running in daylight. Easier, I guess, because there aren’t so many boats about. Come over about eight and I’ll meet you at the town landing. It’ll be low tide at our pier, and you might get aground, seeing you don’t know the cove very well.”
They talked it over further during the next half-hour, and then, as it was dinner time, they abandoned the search for labor and went their ways. Toby wanted Arnold to have dinner with him, but the latter was so filled with his new scheme that he insisted on chugging back to the Head so he might start right out after luncheon on his quest for baseball talent. They parted with the understanding that Arnold was to be at the town landing about eight, and that they were to meet there and report progress.
The moon was up, a big silver half-disk, when Toby reached the float at a few minutes before eight, and the harbor was almost as light as day. He had to wait some time for the Frolic, and, when it did appear, heralded by tiny red and green lights, it was moving slowly and cautiously. Presently Arnold’s hail floated across the water and Toby answered.
“All clear at the end of the float, Arn! Come on straight in!”