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"No, sir. I didn't mean anything about a pocketbook. I wasn't even listening to what Nellie said."
"Then why did you speak? What did you mean when you said, so we all could hear you, that you had it?"
Bob looked first at Frank, and then at Sammy. They, too, were wondering what he had meant by speaking aloud in school, especially during the closing exercises.
"I--I meant that I had an--idea," went on Bob, blushing redder than before.
"Well," said Mr. Tetlow, "perhaps you meant no wrong, but the next time you get an idea, please don't announce it to the whole school that way, and interrupt the proceedings." He was smiling now, and Bob knew he was forgiven.
Bob was usually a pretty good boy in school, and the principal realized this, for a thing like that had never happened before. Bob's explanation was accepted, and, as it was the last day, Mr. Tetlow did not want to punish him.
"Steady now! Quiet down!" said Mr. Tetlow to the pupils, for many of them showed signs of laughter again. "We will overlook it this time, Bob, but don't do it again. You may go on, Nellie. I think Bob is sorry he interrupted you."
"Yes, sir, I am," said Bob, earnestly.
Nellie smiled down at him, for he and she were good friends. Then she finished reciting her piece, and was applauded, and the rest of the exercises went on. Then came the giving of diplomas to those who were to graduate from the grammar department.
This was followed by the awarding of some prizes, and certificates of good conduct, and for prompt and punctual attendance. Then, with a final song by the whole school, the program ended.
"School is dismissed, until the middle of September!" announced Mr. Tetlow, and with happy faces the children marched out to a lively tune, played by Miss Williams, one of the teachers.
In the yard there was more talk and laughter, as the boys and girls started for their homes.
"Did you hear what Bob Bouncer said?"
"Sure! We all did!"
"Wasn't he terrible?"
"And how awful Nellie must have felt! I was real sorry for her."
Thus Bob's companions talked about him.
Frank and Sammy made their way through the crowd to the side of their chum.
"Say, what in the world was the matter with you?" demanded Frank.
"Were you talking in your sleep?" Sammy wanted to know.
"No, I wasn't," answered Bob, quickly. "It was just as I told Mr. Tetlow. I suddenly got an idea, and, before I knew it, I popped out and said it. I didn't even know Nellie was speaking, as I was thinking of something else."
"What was it?" asked Frank.
"Yes, you may as well tell us, now that you went that far," added Sammy.
"Well, it was an idea about our Summer vacation," went on Bob. "Our folks are going to the seashore, you know, and I don't see any reason why you fellows can't come too."
"There are two good reasons," said Frank. "I have one, and Sammy has the other."
"None of our folks are going to the shore," said Sammy. "I wish we were, though, for we could have lots of fun together. Now we'll be a couple of hundred miles apart," he added, in disappointed tones.
"And that's just what my idea is about!" exclaimed Bob. "There's no use in us being separated. Look here, fellows, our folks are going to take a big cottage at the shore. It's too big a house for us, for I heard mom say so. But we couldn't get a smaller one. But I'm glad of it, for now there's going to be room for you two fellows. So why can't you come to the shore with me?"
"That would be swell!" cried Frank.
"It sure would," agreed Sammy. "But would our folks let us?"
"The only way to find out is to ask!" declared Bob quickly. "Come on, I'll go around with you and we'll see if they won't let you fellows go."
"First you'd better find out if your mother will want us," suggested Frank, who was quite practical, at times.
"Yes, we don't want to invite ourselves," put in Sammy. "My mother will be sure to ask first what your mother said, Bob."
"All right, then, we can go around to my house, and I'll ask mom. But I know she will want to have you. Say, maybe we won't have some good times together this Summer!"
"Where are you going?" asked Frank.
"Any pirate treasure buried there?" asked Sammy, quickly.
"Ho! Ho! Listen to him!" cried Frank. "There he goes again, making up a mystery before he's even seen the place."
"Well, there might be pirate gold!" cried Sammy, stoutly.
"And you can have a hunt for it, if you'll only come," said Bob.
"Oh, I'll be sure to come if the folks will let me," replied Sammy. "Come on, let's hurry."
The three boys left their other school companions behind, and hastened on toward Bob's house. As Bob had said she would, his mother readily agreed to the plan of having Sammy and Frank go to the seashore cottage with the Bouncer family.
"Mr. Bouncer and I will be very glad to have you," she said to Sammy and Frank. "You will be company for Bob, and I won't have to amuse him so much. Come, by all means. I'll write notes to each of your mothers, inviting you, and then they'll know it will be all right."
The notes were soon ready, and Frank and Sammy, accompanied by Bob, set off for the homes of the two chums, to get the desired permission.
"Let me know whether or not you can go," Mrs. Bouncer called after Frank and Sammy.
"We will!" they chorused.
"And if you do go, be sure to bring picks and shovels to dig for the pirate gold," she added, with a smile.
"What's that!" cried Sammy, eagerly, and he started back on the run toward Mrs. Bouncer, who stood in the doorway of her house.
AT LIGHTHOUSE COVE
"Here, where are you going, Sammy?"
"Come back here, we want to get this thing settled!"
Thus Frank and Bob called after their chum, who was headed toward where Mrs. Bouncer still stood on the steps.
"I'm going to find out about that pirate gold!" answered Sammy, never turning around.
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