"
"Would you have tried to catch him, if we hadn't been with you?"
asked Laura.
"Yes," Dick admitted. "Though under the circumstances I had no
right to do anything but stay here with you and try to protect
you. Shall we go on with the collecting?"
"If the other girls want to do so," agree Susie Sharp.
"If we want to?" Laura echoed. "After the fright we've had?
All that we want to do is to-----"
"Get back to camp?" smiled Dick. "I'm wholly agreeable. Truth
to tell, I've had such a fright that my nerves are shattered."
"Your nerves shattered?" echoed Belle scornfully. "Tell that
to someone who never lived in Gridley, Dick Prescott! You flew
at that fellow like a tiger."
"But look at the magnificent help I had!" smiled Dick.
CHAPTER XXI
THE MEDICAL EXAMINER TALKS TRAINING
"Do you want a suggestion, Prescott?" inquired Dr. Bentley.
The physician and his party had been over at the high school boys'
camp for something like twenty minutes, that same afternoon, watching
the training work that the young athletes were undergoing.
"Yes, sir," Dick answered promptly. Then a sudden thought striking
him, he added:
"Perhaps I can make a suggestion, doctor, that is even more immediate
in its nature than yours.
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