"Well, won't he have business to attend to?"
His brother laughed. "Good idea, Rob, let us hope so! At any rate we
will do our best to get Cameron and his sister to come to us. We want
them, don't we?"
"We do that!" said the boy fervently; "only I'm sure something will
happen! There," he exclaimed a moment later, in a tone of disappointment
and disgust, "I just knew it! There is Miss Brodie and some one else;
they will get after him, I know!"
"So it is," said Dunn, with a not altogether successful attempt at
surprise.
"Aw! you knew!" said Rob reproachfully.
"Well! I kind of thought she might turn up!" said his brother, with
an air of a convicted criminal. "You know she is quite a friend of
Cameron's. But what is Sir Archibald here for?"
"They will just get him, I know," said Rob gloomily, as he followed his
brother to meet Miss Brodie and her uncle.
"We're here!" cried that young lady, "to join in the demonstration to
the hero! And, my uncle being somewhat conscience-stricken over his
tardy and unwilling acceptance of our superior judgment in the recent
famous case, has come to make such reparation as he can."
"What a piece of impertinence! Don't listen to her, Sir!" cried
Sir Archibald, greeting Dunn warmly and with the respect due an
International captain.
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