dead--I--I don't. I forgot to take the note away and they're going to
tell her and she--she has--her heart isn't very strong like. There's
only one fellow in the troop can do it--it's you. You can do it. You can
do anything, signalling. I've got to admit it now, when I need you.
You're a Raven, but I want you to signal, quick. They'll see it in town.
You're the only fellow can do it--you are. I got to admit it."

He didn't say much because he isn't much on talking. He's always
studying the Handbook. But he jumped down and he just said, "I'll fix
it." And I knew he would.




CHAPTER IX

THE LOST LETTER

Then Elmer Sawyer (he's a Raven) came up to me and said, "He'll do it,
Roy; don't worry. And they'll get it too, because everybody in town is
out these nights looking at the searchlights down the Hudson."

That was one lucky thing. A lot of cruisers and torpedo boats were down
in the harbor and up the Hudson, and we could see their searchlights
even in Bridgeboro.

Wig looked all around the cabin as if he was hunting for something and
then he said, "No searchlight, I suppose." If we had only had a
searchlight it would have been easy, but there wasn't any on board.