You will, therefore, have plenty of time to mature your plans for the big splash." "Hippy Wingate, don't you dare go and get enlargement of the head," warned Nora, after his companions had crowded about Hippy and enthusiastically congratulated him.
"Never mind, Nora.

If he does, just let me know.

I'll con-centrate on his head until it gets so small that he can wear a charlotte russe cup on it instead of a sombrero.

Didn't I con-centrate on everything ?" demanded Emma triumphantly.
"You did," agreed Hippy in a guttural voice.
"And didn't everything turn out just as I con-centrated that it should ?" "It did," rumbled Hippy.
"Then there is nothing more to be said," finished Emma amid the laughter of her companions.
That night, having no tents to cover them, the Overland party slept in the cave.

Tom Gray sat with Hippy on guard at the mouth of the cave all night, but their watchfulness was not needed.