Because you're good on keeping your eyes open and that's the badge for you.

And you're small and kind of thin and that's good in stalking, too, because you can hide behind trees and things." Then I said, "If you'll make me a promise that you'll just think about that one badge and not about a lot of others all at once, when we get up to camp, I'll make you a basket out of a peach-pit to hang around your neck." Just then the door of the galley opened and in came Connie Bennett.
Right behind him were Vic Norris and Stut Moran.

Connie is leader of the Elks and the other two fellows are Elks, too.

Right away he began and I saw he was mad.
"That's a good thing you're talking about--_sneaking_" he said.
I said, "What do you mean ?" "He's getting a good lesson in sneaking all right," he shot right back at me.
"Gee whiz, I don't know what you're talking about," I said.
"Oh, no," he said, all the while sort of sneering at me; "I suppose you didn't bring him in here so you could be where nobody else heard you.
Maybe you think you own the galley." "Sure I brought him in here so we could be alone," I said.
"_Sure you did_," he said, "just so you could start him after the stalker's badge.

We heard you make him promise to go after that and not think about anything else.