`` We 've got to be fair and square , as Jem says , '' said Jerry . `` This is a club to bring ourselves up , seeing there 's nobody else to do it . There 's no use in having many rules . Let 's just have one and any of us that breaks it has got to be punished hard . '' `` But HOW . '' `` We 'll think that up as we go along . We 'll hold a session of the club here in the graveyard every night and talk over what we 've done through the day , and if we think we 've done anything that is n't right or that would disgrace dad the one that does it , or is responsible for it , must be punished . That 's the rule . We 'll all decide on the kind of punishment -- it must be made to fit the crime , as Mr. Flagg says . And the one that 's , guilty will be bound to carry it out and no shirking . There 's going to be fun in this , '' concluded Jerry , with a relish . `` You suggested the soap-bubble party , '' said Faith . `` But that was before we 'd formed the club , '' said Jerry hastily . `` Everything starts from to-night . '' `` But what if we ca n't agree on what 's right , or what the punishment ought to be ? S'pose two of us thought of one thing and two another . There ought to be five in a club like this . '' `` We can ask Jem Blythe to be umpire . He is the squarest boy in Glen St. Mary . But I guess we can settle our own affairs mostly .
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