"No; to own the show. We're going on right along, anyway.
Gid-dap!"

"Hopeless!" muttered Sparling, shaking his head.



CHAPTER V

TAKEN BY SURPRISE

"Hurry up, Teddy!"

"What for?"

"Billy Ford is waiting for us out in the paddock."

"Oh, is that so? What does he want?"

"He's going to walk to the train with us, he says."

"That's good. I wonder if any of the other fellows will
be along?"

"No; I think not. I asked him if he were alone, and he said
he was."

"We might give him a feed in the accommodation car,"
suggested Teddy.