"Perhaps we might get him to let her stay with us," said Phil, showing that he, too, had been thinking along those lines; "if one of you fellows agreed to give up your bunk to 'daddy' and sleep on the floor with me."
"I'd do that, and more, for the sake of keeping her here," declared Lub.
The fishermen reported at noon.
X-Ray seemed in high spirits, and Ethan correspondingly depressed. It was easy to see which way luck had gone that morning.
"Well, there's another day coming," said Phil, hopefully.
"Yes, and I mean to start in and show him a few wrinkles from now on," Ethan declared; at which the other laughed scoffingly as he remarked:
"Oh! so you've just been playing off all this time, have you? Seemed to me you put in your best licks right along. I'll have to think up a few dodges myself, if that's the game."
"Everything square and above board, boys," warned Phil.
"As fair as can be, Phil. Neither of us would want to play a mean trick," said Ethan, and his rival echoed his words.
After lunch Phil told them it was their turn to look after the camp while he took a stroll.