Directly after supper the boys were given until eleven o'clock to
do as they pleased. At once some old barrels were piled high at
one end of the campus, smeared with tar, stuffed with wood, and set
on fire, and the blaze, mounting to the sky, lit up the
neighborhood to the lake on one side and the mountains on the
other.

Four cadets had gone down to Cedarville to buy the fireworks and
the things to eat, and by nine o'clock these returned, loaded down
with their purchases. Among the crowd was Larry Colby, who sought
out Dick as soon as he arrived.

"I've got news," he exclaimed. "Whom do you suppose I saw down in
Cedarville? Josiah Crabtree!"

"You are certain, Larry?"

"Yes."

"Where did you meet him?"

"Down at the restaurant where he went for some ice cream. He was
just paying for a lunch he had had when I came in."

"Did you speak to him?"

"No; I wanted to do so, but as soon as he saw our crowd coming in
he dusted out of a side door."