At four per cent, or whatever it is banks pay you, it would come to nearly--nearly thirty dollars by next Summer.

And thirty dollars would buy us gasoline for a month!" "Right you are," agreed Wink.

"We'll make a real club of it." "How about the rest of you ?" asked Steve.
The others were all in favour, although Perry couldn't quite smother a sigh of regret for the cash in hand he had dreamed of, and there followed an enthusiastic discussion of plans for next Summer, and Bert Alley echoed the sentiment of all when he remarked regretfully that next Summer was an awfully long way off! Ossie made the suggestion that it might be a good plan to reimburse the members from the salvage money for what sums they had expended on the present cruise, explaining, however, that he wasn't particular on his own account.

The question was argued and finally decided in the negative.

As Phil put it, what they had spent would have been spent in any case, whether they had gone on the cruise or stayed at home, and they had all received full value for their contributions.