"How are they going to get the school here, all the way from Bridgeboro?" Pee-wee shouted. "That settles it," Connie said. "Sure it settles it," Pee-wee shouted; "and besides, Monday is Columbus Day--and Monday night, too. That's a holiday." "There are a lot of Knights of Columbus, but there's only one Columbus Day," Westy shouted at him. "They'll find out where we are in three days, won't they?" Pee-wee screamed. "_I_ say let's stay here. _I_ say let's be too proud to send for help." "Sure, we should worry," I said. "That's what _I_ say," Connie shouted. "Scouts don't ask for help, do they?" Pee-wee yelled at the top of his voice. I said, "No, but believe me, scouts like to eat. I know one scout that does, anyway. What are we going to eat between now and next Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday?" "We'll find a way," Pee-wee shouted. "Maybe they'll pick us up to-night, you can't tell. Anyway, I'm not going to be a quitter. Whenever I have to do anything I can always find a way. We can have a movie show, can't we? We can charge ten cents. We can have it to-night. You needn't sign _my_ name to any telegrams." "How can we have a movie show when there isn't any town here?" Westy wanted to know. "We'll find the town," Pee-wee shouted; "it must be somewhere." Connie said, "Oh, it's probably somewhere." "Sure it is," Pee-wee hollered; "and I've got that Temple Camp film in the machine. Remember about those scouts that were lost for a week in the Maine woods? We're not as bad off as they were, are we?" "Sure we're not," I said; "this is only the main line. Maybe it's only a branch line." "Do you mean to tell me that scouts can't get along when they're lost on a branch line?" he wanted to know. "Scouts can do anything, can't they? If I have to do something, I just do it. If I can't do it, I do it anyway. I can find a way, all right." "Bully for you! Hurrah for P. Harris!" we began shouting. "Do you think I'm going to starve?" he screamed. "Gee whiz, it never looked that way to me," I said. "Why should we go home while we're waiting?" he yelled at us. "Look out, you'll fall off the seat," Connie said. "We're here because we're here, you can't deny that!" the kid fairly screeched, all the while hanging onto one of those cage things they put bundles in, so he wouldn't fall off. "And I say we just stay here until they take us back in what-do-you-call-it--triumph--and put us where we belong. This is our station. No matter where it is, it's our station. We're good at tracking. If there's a town we'll trail it." "If it's hiding we'll find it," I shouted; "hip, hip and a couple of hurrahs for P. Harris, scout!" CHAPTER VI THE BIG B