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We 've the fires all ready . '' `` And now , listen ! '' commanded Dick Prescott , after the first preparations had been made for supper . Thereupon the young leader of Dick & Co. repeated the plot they had heard Dodge and Bayliss unfold that noon . `` Hang those two heathens ! '' sputtered Tom Reade indignantly . `` Oh , I 'm glad they 're coming , '' laughed Dick .