"You will know, in a minute," Dick assured his hearers. "Yet,
before telling you, I want to impress upon you that, whenever
you are tempted to be angry, to be harsh in judgments, or when
you can think only ill of your neighbor, then you should always
hark back to just what the man on the clubhouse steps said."
There was a pause and silence, the latter broken by Danny Grin
demanding impatiently:
"Well, what did he say?"
"You see," Dick explained, "the man was all alone on the clubhouse
steps."
"Yes, yes."
"And he wasn't exactly sociable by nature."
"Go on!"
"As I have explained," smiled Dick Prescott, "the man on the clubhouse
steps was alone, and-----"
"Get ahead faster!"
"So, being alone, he just naturally said-----"
"Well?" breathed the auditors. "Well?"
"He just naturally said---_nothing_!"
"What?"
Dick dodged back, laughing. There were a few indignant vocal
explosions among the assembled youngsters, followed by dangerous
calm and quiet.
"Whenever you find yourself under trying circumstances, or when
anger is surging within you, fellows, believe me, you'll always
find it wiser to say just what the man on the clubhouse steps
said---which was nothing," Dick urged.
"And you got us all the way up here, at an appointed time, just
to hear that?" demanded Spoff Henderson.
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