Anyway, if you'd have been there they'd have been caught, because you didn't know those detectives because they're strangers around here." "How'd _you_ know them ?" Keekie Joe inquired.
"Gee, scouts are supposed to know everything," Pee-wee informed him.
Keekie Joe gave a side glance at Pee-wee as he shuffled along at his side.

He was rather interested in a class of boys who knew all officials on sight; here indeed was something worth knowing.

"Yer spotted 'em ?" he asked incredulously.
"_Sure_ I did," said Pee-wee with great alacrity; "because scouts are supposed to be observant, see?
I saw them in Northvale once.

But, believe me, I didn't holla.

_Oh, no_! I ran over and told the fellers and they all got away, so as long as you didn't leave them in the lurch it was all right.