What did I tell you about Pee-wee? No matter what he does, he always lands right side up. He makes a mistake and turns out a hero. You can’t beat him. CHAPTER XV—WE MEET SHERLOCK HOLMES Harry said, “Well, I guess it’s back to Crystal Falls for us. I hope we’ll find my car there. I don’t want to set a bad example to the Boy Scouts, but you see what a good turn one can do stealing an automobile. I hope you boys will always remember that.” Brent said in that funny way of his, “I’ll never say another word against stealing; Pee-wee has taught me a lesson.” “Do you think the burglars were in one of those houses when we started away in the car?” “I think they were inside the house for a second haul when we rode away in their machine,” Brent said. “Make a good movie play, wouldn’t it?” “Will we go to jail now?” poor little Skinny piped up. “We’re heroes!” Pee-wee shouted. “Well, go ahead back,” Brent said; “I think, considering the high cost of gasoline that we’ll roll on and find a good place to camp in—where is it? The woods north of Watertown?” “If we don’t overtake you before you get to Syracuse,” Harry said, “bang up north and wait for us at Kenny’s Hotel in Watertown.” Brent said, “Now look here. You don’t know how long you’ll be in Crystal Falls. By all the rules of the game, Pee-wee will marry the gold-haired judge’s daughter—— I mean the judge’s gold-haired daughter—and it’ll be a week before we can join forces. So this is what we’re going to do; we’re going to motor on to what’s that place—Steuben Junction. We’ve got a full camping outfit in our little old flivver and by the time you get there, we’ll have a nice little camp in the woods all ready for you. Now I’ll tell you what you do. If you don’t overtake us, before we get to Steuben Junction, go to the railroad station or the drug store——” “I’d rather go to the drug store,” Pee-wee yelled. “And ask where the Newburgh scouts have their camp. You’ll find us.” So that was the way we fixed it, and after Brent and his patrol had started, the rest of
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