The Heroes of the School

. There was a buzz of talk about what had taken place

hurt Lem on purpose?" asked Newt

lied Bart. "I'm sorry I said it, and I won't

us much chance to ask hi

hy

some of his cronies, those who were in the game with him. He

a good ball player when he wants to take the pain

ged the boys again, but, though the high school boys did their best, they could not win. They were beaten by one run, bu

ay, and the chums had little time to go off on trips along the river save on Saturdays. They made

nge inscription. But he could not find it. Either he could not l

urmured, as he tramped back home. "There's a

Ned little dreame

noon as he and his chums strolled home. "My, but I'm glad of it! Those e

l have a lot of sport to-morrow. We can c

eel it in my bones! Whoop! It must be something worthy of

nto trouble," c

I ever get you

. There wasn't any trouble when you let a lot of mice loose in the girls' department. There wasn't any trouble when you brought Jimmy Dodger's pet coon in and yelled that it was

"If I get up the scheme myse

spoke Frank. "The cred

to do anythin

to answer," was Ned's rep

ived about a mile outside of the town, they would have had grave suspicions

of lessons. Some students arranged with their teachers to do some studying during vacation to ma

s would be held in the afternoon, the boys and girls

e good about that trick of yours," ob

as going to p

I tho

ver yet," said N

s chums noticed he was not on hand, and they looked wonderingly at

s. It was while Jennie Smith was in the midst of a dramatic rendering of a poem telling

ce near me in the

s coming, coming up

urt and not into a castle. Heavy footsteps they were, not at all lover-like. Up and up they came, sounding like s

n, and into the big auditorium, in front of the pupils ambled a gentle-