"Like they did with airplanes," Pee-wee said. "Yes, but you see the shutters are closed," she said. "Girl scouts are _observant_. It _looks_ as if there were no one in the house but that horrid big giant." I said, "What do you propose?" Then Dora Dane Daring said, "I propose to lead you to victory if you will print it up on your banner that you were saved from disaster by the Girl Scouts of America, and keep that on your banner till you get home." "I'd like to see you do it first," I said. "You mean to tell me you're not afraid of that man?" Pee-wee said. "Do you think I'd let you--a scout has to be chivalrous. He has to protect women----" "Give me your hatchet," she said, and she jerked it out of his belt. "You better look out what you're doing," the kid said. "Do you want to get arrested?" She swung Pee-wee's belt-axe in the air just like Carrie Nation or Joan of Arc and she said, "Follow me!" Pee-wee said, "Dora Dane Daring, you'd better look out what you're doing." She said, "Private Canary Bird Harris, you're a coward. Fall in line, everybody!" Gee whiz, I thought that girl was crazy. Up she marched, right onto the porch, with all the rest of us after her. Pee-wee kind of hung back--safety first for him. I was ready to run any minute. We went across that porch as if we were stalking a bird. But she didn't care. She just hit the door a good rap with the hatchet and kept pushing the button. Boy, I was kind of shaky! Pee-wee said to her, "You'd better be ready to run." I said, "I'm ready to go scout-pace for ten miles. I'm glad a scout can run." I guess that big army all rolled into one with the brass buttons must have known it was our crowd because he didn't come right away. Gee whiz, I pictured him getting madder and madder every second. I was ready to jump from the porch to the middle of the street. Pee-wee had one leg all ready for a good starter. All the while Dora Dane Daring kept pounding on the door and pushing the button. All of a sudden the door opened. That's the end of this chapter. CHAPTER XXV PEE-WEE'S LOSS Pee-wee gave a sudden start, then stopped. We all kind of stood back a little. Westy and Dorry stayed by the railing. We were all ready to retreat in disorder. There was that great big man filling up the whole doorway and his brass buttons shining. He looked like the Allied Army. She just shouted right in his face, "Stand aside and let these boys pass, in the name of the Girl Scouts of America!" _G-o-o-d night_, as sure as I'm writing this, that great big colored man stood out of the way and in she marched waving Pee-wee's belt-axe. We all followed after her, kind of scary. "You'd--you'd better look out," Pee-wee whispered to her. "He can lock us in here and have us all arrested. Maybe--you can't tell--maybe he meditates treachery. What--what are you going to do?"