However, he contented himself by saying in his impassive way, "I know when branches are broken off." "Well, what are we going to do now ?" Roscoe demanded, stopping short and speaking with undisguised impatience.

"You can see far beyond those trees now and you can see there's no light.

They'll have us nailed upon a couple of crosses to-morrow.

I don't intend to be tortured on account of the Boy Scouts of America." He used the name as being synonymous with bungling and silly notions and star-gazing, and it hit Tom in a dangerous spot.

He answered with a kind of proud independence which he seldom showed.
"I didn't say there'd be a light.