"So it seems," admitted the colonel. "What has Master Tompkins been doing lately?"
"That's hard to tell," replied Jack laughingly, "he does so many things. I hear he is going to get up an opposition patrol."
"Who would he get to join it?" asked Gerald, scornfully.
"Oh, he can find plenty to do that," replied Jack. "You know he always has plenty of money to spend."
"There's Monkey Rae and Looney Burns," said Pepper, "they would be in it."
"And Kid Murphy," added Dick.
"I wonder—" began Jack, and stopped, seemingly lost in thought.
"What is it now, Jack?" asked Rand, "trying to put two and two together?"
"I was," replied Jack, "but it don't seem to come out four."
"What is it this time, addition or multiplication?" asked Donald.