The High School Boys' Training Hike by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
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tuition at Saunders. The manager permitted me to watch those
fellows, but somehow they got away from me. I got track of them again near to your camp. Just as I came along they were scooting away, but a glance showed me the mischief they had worked, so I followed them." "Do you know where they are now?" Dick asked eagerly. "I know where they were ten minutes ago," replied the bell-boy. "Then please take us to them as quickly as you can," begged Darry vehemently. "I'm fairly aching to pass the time of night with them!" "I'll do it," agreed the bell-boy. "Follow me, please." "I wonder why they went to all that trouble to be so disagreeable to us," Prescott muttered, as the little party strode along. "You had some dispute with that crowd, on the hotel porch to-night, didn't you?" asked the bell-boy. "Yes; they tried to address some of our girl friends, whom they didn't know and we objected to their insolence." "That was what made the rah-rah boys sore," went on the bell-boy. "I heard them talking about it before I left them. It seems, too, that the manager sent the head waiter to stop their nonsense in the dining room to-night. For some reason these sham college boys blame you fellows for that humiliation also. So they're chuckling over what they've done to your outfit to teach you to |
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