"If you can see how to work the trick at this late hour, you can
see further than I can," muttered Dan, rather enviously.

"Oh, Dick has the scheme hatching, or he wouldn't talk about it,"
declared Dave Darrin, confidently.

"Why, if all you want is to send the whole student body on Monday
morning, each with fifteen copper cents to hand the Prin., that
can be fixed up easily enough," Dick pronounced, judicially.

"How are we going to do it?" asked Dalzell, dubiously.

"Well, let us see how many pennies would be needed? There are
close to two hundred and fifty students, but a few might refuse
to go into the trick. Let us say two hundred and forty _times_
fifteen. That's thirty-six hundred, isn't it? That means we
want to get thirty-six dollars' worth of pennies. Well, we'll
get them!"

"_We_ will?" demanded Dan, with a snort. "Dick, unless you've
got more cash on hand than the rest of us then I don't believe
a dragnet search of this crowd would turn up two dollars. Thirty-six?
That's going some and halfway back!"

"There are three principal ways of buying goods of any kind,"
Dick continued. "One way is with cash-----"

"That's the street we live on!" broke in Harry Hazelton, with
a laugh.