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or firmly behind him. Then they went at a double-quick for Moore's restaurant

rly lighted streets of Kingston without fear of detection from any passer-by. MacManus dragged his feet and refused to go for a time, till Tug and Sawed-Off hauled him over such rough spots that he preferred to walk. Then, without warning, when the

of the Crows whom they had forgotten to take into account. He was the fat boy whom Tug and

h the Crows; but he had been invited out to a bigger supper than he could get at the "Slaughter-house," and so

ng and looking at a feast in which he could not take part, and he reminded the Lakerimmers that he had had no share in the attack on Tug and History, and had done nothing to interfere with their escape from R

ble was spread, and told him to hurry up with the banquet, it never occurred to him to ask for a certificate of character from the guests. He

ouldn't come; so we

of the Academy boys were always past his comprehension, so he and the waiters came bustling in with the first course of

sobbed as he thought of the hard time he had spent in collecting the money and preparing the menu-and all for the enjoyment of the hated Lakerimmers, who had already spoiled the final hazing of the year, and were now giggling and gobbling the precious banquet provid

a guest instead of a prisoner. MacManus objected bitterly for a long time, but the enticing odor drove him almost crazy, and the sight of the renegade fat boy, who was fairly making a cupboard of himself, finally convinced the president that it was better to take his ill fortune with a good grace. So

each other, back to back, and untie the knots around each other's wrists. They were soon free, and quickly had their fellows liberated and the gags all removed. But the liberty of hands and feet and tongues, though it left them free to express their rage, still left them as far as ever from the banquet which, as they soon suspec