Dick now looked as keen as ever, and his eyes were shining.
"It's all settled for me," he announced.

"I can go camping." "So can I," Dave reported with satisfaction.
"Dad almost as good as said I could go," Tom declared.

"He'll agree to it by to-night." "How about you, Dan ?" queried Dick.
"I can go--_not_," groaned Dalzell.
"I hope to go," announced Greg.

"All I could get out of my father was that he was in a rush, but that he'd talk it over with me to-morrow and let me know what he had to say." Hazelton admitted that he was in the same plight, as to a delayed decision, but he did not speak as though he were very hopeful of being permitted to go.
"It'll just be a shame if we can't all go," Dave declared seriously.

"It won't be a quarter as much fun unless we have the whole crowd." "Say, watch that slim, well-dressed fellow with the brown derby," whispered Hazelton.