You might be the bold
Robin himself returned."
"It was but a chance shot that I might not be able to repeat,"
returned the other modestly. "But I was a member of an archery club
in our place and that brings me to my errand here. You are Randolph
Peyton, leader of the Uncas Patrol, if I am not mistaken. I was
told in the town that I would find you here."
"That is my name," replied Rand.
"My name is Wat Watson," announced the other with a smile. "It is
an alterative sort of a name, but all I have. I have here," presenting
a paper to Rand, "a challenge from the Highpoint Patrol."
"A challenge!" exclaimed Rand. "Not for an archery contest, I
hope, or we are beaten before we begin. Master Watson, permit me
to present Don Graeme, Jack Blake and his brother, Pepper, Dick
Wilson, and last, but not least in his own estimation, Gerald
Moore."
"I am heartily glad to meet you all," said Wat, shaking hands all
around, "and hope I may often have the pleasure."
"The same to you," responded the boys.
"And may you live to be a hundred," added Gerald, "and may Oi be
wid ye.
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