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 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