CHAPTER XVI
MR. BROSE WILKINS
There seemed nothing for it but to take
Kewpie into their confidence, and this they
did when, after dinner, Ned and Laurie were back
in No. 16. Kewpie, still demanding a work-out
and impatient at delay, proved that he was not
entirely obsessed by baseball. He became quite
excited about Miss Comfort and the Pequot Queen
and demanded to be let in on the affair.
"Got any money?" asked Ned.
Kewpie smiled in an irritatingly superior manner and showed a purse fairly bulging with bills and silver coins. "Which," he observed grandly, reminds me that I owe you fellows a trifle." The twins accepted payment without demur.
"I asked about money," said Ned when that matter had been concluded, "because to get in on this game, Kewpie, you have to have—er—three dollars."
Kewpie's countenance promptly betrayed the
