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Updated: May 14, 2025
About twenty cadets, all bound for Putnam Hall Military Academy, had arrived on the boat from Ithaca, and these, along with some others who had come down to the dock to see the boat come in, gathered around Jack Ruddy and Reff Ritter to see the outcome of the unexpected encounter. Jack Ruddy had good cause to consider Reff Ritter his enemy.
"What?" came simultaneously from Jack and Pepper. "Your watch and chain, Jack." "My watch and chain!" cried the former major of the school battalion. "Yes." "What did you do about it? Why didn't you report it to me, or to Captain Putnam?" "I was so stunned I didn't know what to do. I couldn't believe that Reff had taken them, and that he was guilty of the robberies that were going on.
After the game was half over she asked me how many runs and base hits had been made, and what they had done with the bats!" Reff Ritter felt extra sore when the football eleven went out for practice. He wanted to play, but Captain Putnam would not allow it, and the bully went off by himself, up the lake-shore, where he sat down on a rock to smoke cigarettes and brood over his troubles.
He said that he had just been getting ready to take some gymnastic exercise when Jack and some of his chums had come in and begun to talk about his father, saying that they had heard he was dishonest. "Ruddy said he knew my father was dishonest," went on Reff Ritter.
The two culprits started, and Coulter turned pale. "Why, I er " stammered Gus. "I that is " He did not know how to proceed. He did not dare deny his guilt, not knowing but what the assistant teacher might have seen him and his crony light the tar-barrels. "Well, if you er want to know the truth, Captain Putnam, we er started the fire," stammered Reff Ritter. "But it was an accident."
Gus Coulter got in also, but when he saw that Reff Ritter and Nick Paxton had been left, he scrambled out again, and his place was taken by Fred Century, another student. "Hello, Peleg, old sport!" cried Pepper, gaily, to the driver of the turnout. "How have you been for the past fifty years?" "Oh, I'm very well, thank you," responded Peleg Snuggers.
For the moment nobody spoke, but Pepper, Jack and Andy, as well as Joe, looked at Reff Ritter and Gus Coulter. "I want an answer!" cried Captain Putnam, sternly. "Who started that fire?" He looked around from one cadet to another. But nobody spoke. It was a rule of honor among the cadets of Putnam Hall that no student should tell on another.
The latter was the hardest blow of all, for Ritter had hoped that Fall to make the football team. "Now, what is he up to?" Pepper asked himself, and stuffing the napkin that held the cake and sandwich into his pocket, he moved forward on a run. Reff Ritter had crossed the float and now he stood beside the sloop that was Jack's property.
And you, Paxton, should have told me about Ritter's sneaking around." "Oh, I thought it was only fun at first," pleaded Paxton. "He is undoubtedly guilty, and there remains nothing to do but to have him arrested." It was not long after this when he and George Strong went on a hunt for Reff Ritter, to place him in the guardroom until an officer of the law could be summoned.
"Ritter was knocked out fair and square," came from Bart Connors. While the talking was going on, Paxton had rushed off for water. Now he returned with a pailful and a sponge, and commenced to bathe the fallen one's face. Ritter soon opened his eyes and gave a groan. "Le let me al alone," he muttered. "Get up, Reff," said Paxton. "Go for him again."
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