He
said other trails branched off from it, so we'd have to be careful. He said
it didn't go right to the top, and I suppose that's why they couldn't find
it coming down.
He said, "Did you ever hit a mountain trail?"
"_Hit_ one?" I said. "We give one a knock-out blow every couple of days. So
long, we'll see you later. Tell that girl not to worry."
Gee whiz, I forgot all about Marjorie.
CHAPTER XXXVI
UP THE TRAIL
As soon as I told Westy about it, he said he'd go into Haverstraw so as to
save time, while I went back to camp and got the rest of the fellows. Oh
boy, didn't I hustle. I went running into camp shouting that there were two
fellows and two girls on the top of Eagle's Nest, and that we had to go and
rescue them.
"Are they human?" Harry asked in that funny way he had.
"Yes, they're human," I said.
"Five toes on their front feet and four on their hind feet?" he asked me.
"Had we better take some flypaper?"
"All right, you can laugh," I said.
He said, "I've followed you through many wild adventures, but I never
accompanied you in rescuing a maiden in distress.
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