“So it took a couple of boys to figure out that scheme!” says he. “If that don’t beat anything! It’s equal to Napoleon at his best. Yes, sir, it’s better than Napoleon at his best. Napoleon would have been proud to see through a scheme like you’ve done.... And now we’ve got to warn everybody.” “No,” says Catty, “remember, you promised not to tell.” “But—” “We haven’t any _proof_,” says Catty. “We _know_ the folks are going to be cheated, but we can’t prove it, and if we were to make any talk about Mr. Kinderhook, the way everybody feels right now, and then couldn’t prove every word we said, they would tar and feather us and ride us on rails.” “I guess that’s right,” says Mr. Wade. “But what are we to do?” “I want you to fix things so that folks won’t pay in their money to Mr. Kinderhook. Fix it so they pay it to Captain Winton at the bank, and so that he’ll hang on to it till Mr. Kinderhook proves his churn will make butter.” “You mean until Kinderhook gives a public demonstration of his churn?” “That’s it, in nice long words,” says Catty. “That will make it sure he doesn’t get the money and sneak away, and he can’t very well refuse to—to demonstrate, can he? Don’t ask to see the insides of his churn, but just to have him set it up some place and pour cream into it and make butter. He can hide his churn in a box, or do anything with it, just so he proves to folks that it is his churn and that it is making butter. See?” “He can’t refuse to do that, and I guess I can talk folks into insisting on it. But what then?” “That’s up to Wee-wee and me,” says Catty. “We’ll ’tend to the rest. You do your part and we’ll do ours.” We left, and Mr. Wade started over to see Captain Winton and some of the other business men of the town to suggest about the public demonstration of the churn. Our idea was to go down to the hotel to see what we could find out about the model of the churn that Mr. Kinderhook had. We figured he must have it with him, and our job was to find out where. “I’m goin’ to write for all the churn catalogues I kin git,” says Catty. “I want to see what all the churns look like and how they work. It ’ll come in mighty handy.”