“Well, you fellows think it over,” said Jimmy. “It looks to me like a good thing for all of us, but you’d better consult your folks and talk it over. I don’t want to butt in on you unless you want me, but I’ve had some experience in the business, fellows, and I think you need a chap around that has had experience. But you fellows take your time and do as you like.” “I think it would be fine all around,” declared Willard. “With that money of yours, Jimmy, we could get a motor truck right away and――――” “Jimmy said a truck would cost twelve hundred,” Tom objected. “If you put in seven hundred we’d still be five hundred short.” “We’d get a second-hand one if we could find it,” said Jimmy. “And I guess we could. I’d run down to New York and snoop around there. We might have to pay six hundred and then put in fifty or so in repairs, but we’d have something worth while if we did.” “Well, it’s mighty nice of you, Jimmy, to――to want to come in with us,” said Tom, “and I don’t know anyone I’d rather have for a partner. We――we’ll talk it over and let you know in――in a day or two. I’m sort of scared, to tell the truth. I didn’t think when I first wanted to buy that car from Saunders that I’d be thinking about motor-trucks and garages a couple of months later! It――it sounds sort of big, don’t it, Will?” “It sounds mighty good!” replied Willard heartily. “Of course we’ll have to consider it, Jimmy, but as far as I’m concerned I’m for it!” “Well, I guess I am, too,” said Tom, “but I suppose we’d better think it over a little. If we let you know Tuesday, Jimmy, would it be all right?” “Sure! There’s no hurry as far as I’m concerned. Take all the time you want, fellows.” The boys were rather silent as they emerged from the boarding-house and took their way up Pine Street. There was plenty to talk about but they were far too excited. When they reached the corner of Cross Street Willard asked: “Have you got to go home right away, Tom?” Tom shook his head. “Then say we walk through Linden Court. There――there’s an old stable there that might be just what we’d want in case we――in case we decided to do it!” “Oh, shucks!” said Tom disparagingly. “That thing’s all falling to pieces. If we _should_ decide to do it I know the very place!” “You do?” asked the other eagerly. “Where?” “The old car-barn on Oak Street.” “By Jiminy! Let’s go and see it!” CHAPTER XXII THE BOYS TAKE A PARTNER The boys got back to Tom’s house still full of the new venture, and Mr. Benton, just up from his Sunday afternoon nap, was taken into their confidence. When Tom had finished telling about it, “What do you think, sir?” he asked.