"Now, wouldn't it be queer if we _did_ run across the mutt there at your uncle's place, Harry?" remarked Jimmy. "But here we are again, Ned, uniting business with pleasure like we've done heaps of times before now. Mr. Clem Parsons, I'm sure sorry for you when this combination gets started to work, because you've _got_ to come in out of the wet and that's all there is to it!"