OFF ON A NEW TACK It is doubtful if ever there was a scout at Temple Camp for whom Tom felt a greater interest or by whom he was more attracted than by this irrepressible boy whose ready prowess he had just witnessed.

And the funny part of it was that no two persons could possibly have been more unlike than these two.

Hervey even got on Tom's nerves somewhat by his blithe disregard of the handbook side of scouting, except for what it was worth to him in his stuntful career.
The handbook was almost a sacred volume to sober Tom.

Still, he was captivated by Hervey, as indeed others were in the big camp.
"Well, you were after the Eagle and you got an oriole," he said, half jokingly.

"That's what I meant when I said that sometimes you don't know where a trail will bring you out.