I got the word from a friend of mine, Joe Devine.

Joe was talking with Nat Poole, and he said Nat was very angry at all of us, and angry because Mrs.Wadsworth was giving us the party, especially as he wasn't invited.

Joe said Nat intimated that he was going to make the affair turn out a fizzle." "A fizzle ?" queried Phil.

"How ?" "Joe didn't know, but he told me, on the quiet, that I ought to watch out, and ought to warn the others.

But I don't like to say anything to Mrs.Wadsworth, or the girls.