“Good,” cried John. “Go ahead from there, Grant.”
“A,” said Grant.
“That’s a word,” cried Fred. “We’ve got ‘take a,’ so far.”
“C,” said Grant. “C-o; C-o-u; C-o-u-r.”
“That means ‘heart’ in French,” exclaimed George. “The next three letters, s-e-d, mean ‘but’ in French. Do you suppose that could be right?”
“It doesn’t make sense that way,” said John. ‘Take a heart but.’ What does that mean?“
“Perhaps every word doesn’t count,” George suggested.
“Look here,” exclaimed Grant. “What does c-o-u-r-s-e spell?”
“Course, of course,” said John laughingly.
“Certainly it does,” said Grant. “That’s the word we want. So far we have three; ‘take a course.’ Doesn’t that sound more like it to you fellows than some sort of French that George is trying to bring into it?”