“What are you butting in for?” demanded Dreer angrily. “I’ll cuff the
kid if I want to. You get out of here, Penny.”

increased his resemblance to a ferocious walrus
“You know what,” replied “Babe” Beaufort with an ugly scowl that
increased his resemblance to a ferocious walrus. “You shied a stone at
me!” His eyes, however, fixed themselves on Penny.

“Do you suppose–” began Clint. But Amy hissed him to silence.

Mr. Daley looked puzzled. “Well,” he said, “you’d better all return to
hall for the rest of the day. You’ll–er–you’ll probably hear from this
later.” Beaufort took his departure non-chalantly, whistling as he made
his way through the woods. Dreer stood not on the order of his going,
but was over the wall almost before the instructor had finished
speaking. Penny and Clint followed more leisurely, leaving Mr. Daley and
Mr. Conklin in possession of the field of battle. They too, however,
presently continued their interrupted walk.

“Don’t see that I can do anything except grin,” was the reply. “If I
charge him with it he’ll deny it. No one saw him do it, I guess. He
probably came in here early this afternoon. I have French at two, you
know, and he probably counted on that. Gus never is in, anyhow. After he
did it he put it back in the case, but I knew as soon as I’d opened it
that somebody had been at it because my handkerchief was underneath, and
I always spread it on top. If I beat him up he’ll go to Josh and Josh
will say it was an unwarrantable attack, or something, and I’ll get the
dickens. I can’t afford that, because I’m trying hard for a Draper
Scholarship and can’t take chances. I guess he’s evened things up all
right, Thayer.”

“Are you, Byrd?” There was a twinkle in the principal’s eye. “You know
if you hadn’t got lost you wouldn’t have a nice new watch!”

“Sure to be sooner or later.”

tomorrow, will you? Much obliged, old man
“I guess we’ll take Thayer,” was the answer, “Tell him to report
tomorrow, will you? Much obliged, old man.”