At last, hunting up Johnny, they set the basket before him. The leader said:
“With the compliments of an admiring throng to the good scout who discovered our winner, Old Kentucky.”
Then such a shout as went up from the throng. “Give and it shall be given unto you,” Johnny thought as he tried in vain to swallow a lump in his throat.
“Well, Kentucky, old boy,” Johnny said as they sat by the big glowing stove in the Blue Moon sometime later, “the big war is over. All you got to do now is study and help me here a little. All I got to do is to keep making this place a success. The old Blue Moon,” he murmured these last words softly.
“Yes,” the slim boy agreed, “that’s all, but somehow, Johnny, that makes me feel like a plumb flat tire.”
“That,” said Johnny in an impressive tone, “is just the way I feel.”
Did the old Blue Moon and Hillcrest hold them both? When Johnny sat dreaming of Panther Eye and his two strange companions of another world, did he always succeed in dismissing them from his memory?
Your guess is as good as ours, but if you really want to know you will have to read that other book The Seal of Secrecy. What was the seal and what the secret? Read and see.
