The Mystery at Putnam Hall: The School Chums' Strange Discovery

er, as he found himself flat on his back

this boat alone!"

," muttered the bully, and n

es, I suppose," went on Pepper,

ung the ax so suggestively that Pepper leaped back

s sloop; you have no

ou shu

If you make another mark on th

ut his manner showed that he was considerably disconcerted. He had imagined t

to get off o

sing I

, and advise Jack to

the whole scho

his affair, Ritter.

use and placed the ax inside. "Don't you dare to mention this to anybody!" he shouted as he reappeared. "If you do, y

ched him o

" he reasoned. "Ritter would, of course, den

o get in his nefarious work to any extent, and the bottom of the

on the stern seat and munched away at the sandwich and cake, was

their supper, and soon he was joined by Jack, Dale and several

ck. "If he hurts my bo

given him a good dressing

he dese

s mean of old Crabtree to se

ay him back," answe

r kept his distance. The bully was in a bitter mood

had written to him, stating he could allow him hardly any spending money for the term. He had already borrowed a small amount from Paxton and he was wondering how

lf. "If he won't, then I'll write to mother. She'll raise it for me somehow;

is belongings, but without success. A report came in that a strange man had been seen on the road just previous to the ac

, and then he heaved a deep sigh, thinking

d also to see their old friend, Joseph Hogan. Emerald

said, in his rich Irish brogue. "I traveled all over the ould sod thi

t term here, Emer

lucky and get thro

graduate

er. "But you can't always tell. I'

d times as we have h

things, and the fight between Jack and Ritter, was at an end, the talk of the boys turned to football and o

e allowed to play

head of that school, over the carryall affair, and maybe he won't let us play them." And in this

, and, as before, he organized a fine team. Jack, And

ou, too, Pepp

, for Pepper did not care very much for footbal

wants us to play, while he sits in the gran

e Imp, coolly. "Somebody

ntertained by the g

took one once, and she said she knew all about football. After the game was half over she

uld not allow it, and the bully went off by himself, up the lake-shore, where he sat down on a rock to smoke cigaret

ing to raise it," he muttered to himself. "I guess I

e made up of former college boys and some all-around athletes, and the cadets were told that they would have a stiff time of it trying to beat the aggregation. Th

ome off. "Some of the Pornell students are coming to the game, and

Bock crowd?"

es

an eye on them, Pepper. We can

on 'em, don't fear

ng, who had once been a player on a college team. Josiah Crabtree too

the day before the game. And then he took about a dozen cadets aside and told them w

Cedarville in the carryall, which had just come from the repair shop. Some of the cadets w

rns and banners were in evidence, and from a flagpole floated the Stars and S

mine," cried Pepper, an

lake-shore at a place called Point View Lodge. In the past Pepper and his chums had done the

er?" called out Laura, o

laying?" ques

d Pepper, and he raised his cap and shook ha

hank you," an

all will win," ca

epper, and then he introduced several cadets to th

t first a few came in and took a stand in a corner, out of the way. They di

feet and stayed away," sa

Bob Grenwood. "And Sedley a

d his cronies approaching. All had big tin horns and immense w

swung his big rattle, and his cronies did likewise. Then the Pornellites crowded into the grandstand and took seats near Pepper and his fellow cadets

t off the stand!" cr

ed Pepper. "They can cheer all they please for the Daun

e was a toss-up for goals, which Dauntless won. They took the south goal a