“It looks all smooth sailing; doesn’t it now?” Randy submitted in his optimistic way.
“How soon will we open?” pressed the eager Pep.
“I should think we would be all ready within a week or ten days.”
“Oh, pshaw! have to wait that long?” mourned Pep.
“You want things right; don’t you?” asked Randy.
“Oh, of course, of course,” responded Pep, “only every day counts. Before we know it someone else will break in and get all the cream off the proposition.”
“No, no, friend Pep,” laughed Ben Jolly confidently. “We’ve got too good a start in the movies race at Seaside Park, and we’re bound to win.”
CHAPTER XII—BUSINESS RIVALS
“Put the brake on, Pep!” sang out Randy.
“What’s the trouble now?” inquired Ben Jolly. “Someone trying to kidnap you again?”