Now if you want to stick to those fellows, go ahead and do it. I’m not
stopping you. This story has two endings and you can choose whichever
one you please. I should worry. If you want to stay with us and watch us
play checkers, all right. If you want to go with them, all right.
First I’ll tell you their ending of the story. They stopped at Bennett’s
and had sodas, and Charlie Seabury bought some gumdrops. After supper
they went down to the Lyric Theatre and they stopped with Dorry while he
bought a bell for his bicycle. After the excitement of buying the bell
was over, they stopped in the library and Hunt Manners got “Kidnaped,”
by Stevenson. He should have got slapped on the wrist instead of
kidnaped.
Then they went on down to the Lyric and stood on the line for twenty
minutes. When they got in they saw “The Cowboy’s Vengeance.” Oh, they
had a wild time that night. That cowboy had troubles of his own. But one
thing, he killed eleven train robbers. Maybe you’ll say our poor old car
that was marooned in the marsh didn’t have any pep compared to that
train going through the Rocky Mountains. But you cannot sometimes always
tell.
That’s one ending to this story. Now comes the other one.