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"Do you suppose we could corner this Parwick and get him to talk?" "We might, but I have another plan." "What is that?" "To watch Parwick, and follow him when I think he is going to meet Koswell and the others. I may be able to overhear their talk." "Good!" After that Dick and Sam told Tom of what had occurred at the college since their brother had left.

"I thought there were three of you, from what Larry said." "So there are," answered Dick, and told about Tom and the missing dress-suit case. "Tom ought to be getting back," he added. Stanley had been at Brill for two days and had met both Flockley and Koswell. He did not fancy either of the sophomores.

"Then, when there is a deep snow on the ground we can sit before the blazing fire and crack nuts and eat them. You must come over some time this winter and help," she added. "Perhaps I will," murmured Dick. He had to admit to himself that Minnie was very cordial and that she was by no means bad looking. He did not wonder why Flockley and Koswell were so anxious to call upon her.

It was rather dark in the hall, and all I saw was that it contained pencils and crayons," answered Jerry Koswell. "Well, I don't believe you," answered Tom abruptly. "You did it on purpose, and maybe some day I'll be able to prove it." And he walked off, leaving Koswell in anything but a comfortable frame of mind. Tom was curious to see how Professor Sharp would act after the affair.

"Whoever took them did so, most likely, without permission." "I guess you are right," returned Tom. "Anything I can do for you?" asked Frank Holden pleasantly. "Nothing, thank you," replied Dick; and then he and his brothers withdrew and made their way to their own rooms as silently as possible. On the way they stopped at the doors of the rooms occupied by Koswell and Larkspur and listened.

He said Koswell had hatched out the plot, aided by Larkspur, and that he himself had been a more or less unwilling participant. He told much about Parwick, and how that dissolute fellow had spoken of having the strange powder, which was a Japanese concoction, and which, if used often, would render a person insane.

Larkspur was poor and Dick had heard that he was used by Flockley, Koswell and others to do all sorts of odd jobs, for which the richer lads paid him well. "Stop that, you!" cried the oldest Rover, and then, rushing to the door, he flung it open and gave a shove to what was beyond.

"It was that Dick Rover who led the attack," said Dudd Flockley. "Do you know what I think? I think he is going to try to make himself leader of the freshies." "Just what I thought, too," answered Larkspur. "And if that's the fact we ought to do all we can to pull him down." "Tom Rover is the fellow I am going to get after," came from Jerry Koswell.

Before long the island was reached, and the Rovers rounded it a length and a half ahead. This made Jerry Koswell frantic, and he called on Larkspur to increase the stroke. "All right, I'm with you," was the short answer. The increase in the stroke speedily told, and inch by inch the second boat began to overhaul the first Then Tom made a miss, sending a shower of water into the air.

He tried to defend himself, but Tom was "fighting mad," and his blows came so rapidly that Koswell was knocked around like a tenpin and sent bumping, first into Flockley, then into Larkspur, and then into some bushes, where he lay, panting for breath. "Now have you had enough?" demanded Tom, while the crowd marveled at his quickness and staying powers. "I I " stammered Koswell.