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"Where are they going, anyway?" asked Giant as he halted.
"I know," whispered Whopper. "Just heard about it. They are going
to camp out behind Lake Narsac, in the Windy Mountains."
"The Windy Mountains?" ejaculated the doctor's son in evident
astonishment. "Did you say the Windy Mountains, Whopper?"
"I did. Why, what's the matter, Shep?"
"Well, if that don't beat the Dutch!" And then Shep shook his head
in a manner that indicated something did not suit him at all.
CHAPTER II
ANOTHER OUTING PROPOSED
"Will you be so highly condescending and much obliging as to open the
trapdoor of your mind and let us know what it is that beats the
Dutch?" demanded Giant, after he and his chums had looked at the
doctor's son for several seconds in silence.
"Why, yes, of course," answered Shep. "But er---it all fits in with
what I was going to tell you about in the first place."
"And that was-----" burst out Whopper eagerly.
"Wait till we are out on the river, away from the town folks. I don't
want everybody to know our business."
"Great Scott! but Shep's got a secret!" burst out Snap.
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