"If my folks won't let me, they--they'll wish they had!" Whereupon, emboldened by Oscar's stand, Neil Fairleigh expressed the conviction that he, too, could manage it some way.

"I dare say that if I tell my dad that all you chaps are going he will think it's all right.
It wouldn't be for all Summer, anyway, would it ?" "The idea now," responded Steve, "is to start out for a month's cruise and extend it if we cared to.

I suppose any of us that got tired could quit after the month was up." He smiled.

"We'd all have to sign-on for a month, though." "Right-o," agreed Hanford.

"What about electing officers?
Oughtn't we to do that?
Someone ought to be in charge, I should think." "Sure!" exclaimed Joe.