“You've never been here before, have you, sir?”
“Never,” Jack confessed.
“Then I take it you have never, sir, seen the camelroorelephant?”
“The cam—” began Eph Somers.
Then he stopped, clapping both hands to his right jaw.
“Won't you please hand that to us in pieces?” begged Eph, speaking as though with difficulty.
The cadet laughed heartily, then added:
“Don't try to pronounce it, gentlemen, until you've seen the camelroorelephant. It's a cadet joke, but it's well worth seeing. Shall I take you to it?”
“Why, yes, if you'll be good enough,” Jack assented, heartily.
The cadet glanced quickly about him, then said in a low voice: