Jack Ranger's Western Trip From Boarding School to Ranch and Range

e me!" yelled

g!" screamed

g!" shouted

ater. Because of the rope nooses about their feet thei

ot angrily, as he tried to g

ll hang for this!" s

mean," said Jack. "Besides it's only u

ith water, had managed to stand upright. They reached

Ranger," shouted Adrian, sh

r. "Come on, fellows, we don't want to be late for the lect

ed for damaging my cl

ours," went on Jack. "I guess you'll cry 'quits,' that's what you'll do. You t

the three lads who had taken such an unexpected bath wad

w it it h-h-h-appened?" stuttered Will,

p into them before they could lay hands on the clothes," explained

ed," put in Nat. "Wow!

you thin

e. Say didn't they come down o

g a ten pound pickerel," sai

s he slipped on his coat. "They all c

it was hard to walk. Their shoes "squashed" out water at every step. They sat down on the g

ished dressing. "Lecture begins in about t

son, when Adrian stop

u'd sent your cards we would have had the water w

as possible from their garments. Leaving them sitting on the grass, as th

ng lecture, which was at an early hou

academy went on in a rather more even tenor than was usual. One

away?" h

aesar," was the repl

d Sam. "Do you feel anyth

r and ague," replied Jack with

n don't you feel as if yo

less," Jack admitted. "I'm not

think that would quiet me down. I feel j

ill, if we go out at

ainst th

or I did it. Come on, let's go out. Down the trelli

know," be

" interrupted Sam. "I

e o

ght low, and soon he and Sam were cautiously making their way f

ightly to the earth. "I feel better alr

ack. "Some of the teache

eamed forth. It came from a crack between the lowered shade and the casement. It was impossible to pass it

s up to some trick!" whispered Ja

g over a table, containing a pot of something, wh

ey up to?" w

th chemicals, per

hey're up to some game, you can bet. I w

rer to the window. They

of an explosion?"

it will leave its mark all right, and I guess those fresh friend

with them before the

ri

all right,"

sure of that,"

spirators were up to. Their conversation, which floated through the opened window, and thei

said Jack in a whisper. "I wouldn

oil their pla

own on his hands and knees, an example which Sam

een away for a few weeks, as one of his relatives was ill. Jack sounded a cautious whistle in reply, and so

nute," said John Smith. "I

remained in deep thou

ave you any chemicals

that lately, and I got a fresh supply from th

l make these chaps

some time, behind carefully drawn shades. At the end of about two

the stuff. It's ti

poke Sam, "That's what they said. We'll ha

hed they had several packages. Down the trellis they we

a broad base in front of the school. There stood the Father of His Country, wit

here!" said Sa

of the figure, and to a thin thing like a string: wh

here," said Jack. "Trying to throw

de some rapid movements around the statue, and then c

hat fuse he'll wonder what has

of the other fu

ndian student. "Have yo

one," s

go back," said John.

tangled

y quietly to a spot ju

ey placed what seemed

m, and wait until the

o

night they heard Bagot's window cautiously open. There was

her

oom. It was followed by a larger one from the foot of the trellis by which Jack had desc

sident. Then there was a puff of smoke, and in front of

British were firing on the Minute Men at Lexington, and the latter we

here and there, and h

matter?" "Are there burgla

as enveloped in a cloud of flame and smoke, and, had the origin

ed by a shower of sparks, and a trail of sparks b

as on an illuminated sign, in front of the ro

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Jack, as he looked out on the campus