When we got it in place we put the brush over it, and fixed everything like it had been.
At last Leon said: "That's the time we got into something not intended for us, and if father finds it out, we are in for a good thrashing.
Are you just a blubbering baby, or are you big enough to keep still ?" "I am old enough that I could have gone to school two years ago, and I won't tell!" I said stoutly.
"All right! Come on then," said Leon.

"I don't know but mother has been calling us." We started up the orchard path at the fourth call.
"Hoo-hoo!" answered Leon in a sick little voice to make it sound far away.

Must have made mother think we were on Deams' hill.

Then we went on side by side.
"Say Leon, you found the Station, didn't you ?" "Don't talk about it!" snapped Leon.
I changed the subject "Whose money do you suppose that is ?" "Oh crackey! You can depend on a girl to see everything," groaned Leon.

"Do you think you'll be able to stand the switching that job will bring you, without getting sick in bed ?" Now I never had been sick in bed, and from what I had seen of other people who were, I never wanted to be.