Hugh and Thad walked on, the latter fairly boiling with ill-suppressed
anger.

"That fellow always gives me a pain, Hugh," he was saying, as they
increased the distance separating them from the still merry trio in
the rear. "He is really the meanest boy you could find in all the
towns of this country. But fellows like him sometimes catch a Tartar;
so, perhaps, it might happen in this case," and Thad, who evidently
had something on his mind, would not commit himself further, as they
walked on in company.




CHAPTER VI

THE PROWLER


There had been considerable of a change in connection with the big
open field where the boys of Scranton were allowed by the town council
and mayor to play baseball, and also football, since summer waned.
Somehow the success that attended the work of Scranton High in
the battles of the Three Town League, as narrated in an earlier
volume of this series, seemed to have stirred up many of the leading
citizens. Besides, Mr. Leonard, the efficient under-principal of the
high school, with a genuine love and sympathy for all boys in his heart,
had kept things at boiling pitch.

Consequently there was, first of all, a move made to lease that splendid