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But two days later Flapp, Rockley, and Pender got permission to go to the village of Oakville, two miles distant, one to buy some corn salve he said he wanted and the others to do a little trading. The boys had collected nine dollars from various members of their crowd and this was to be spent for liquor, cigars, and for several packs of cards.
"That's it!" interrupted Lew Flapp, thinking he saw a way of implicating Dick and Powell. "Mike Sherry never lets anybody in his saloon without they drink something." "It's as plain as day," came from Rockley. "They had all the liquor they wanted before they came up, and now they want to stop our sport." "Your story might be believed were it not for one thing," said Dick, trying to keep calm.
We'll wear masks and he'll think he's in for a bit of hazing and won't squeal very loud. Then we can blindfold him and bring him here." "So far, so good," put in Rockley. "And after that?" "You know how he hates liquor?" "Does he, or is it all put on?" questioned Ben Hurdy. "I can't say as to that, but anyway he pretends to hate it, so it amounts to the same thing.
In a manner not to be easily explained, the camp divided itself into two factions, one led by Dick and Major Larry, and the other led by Lew Flapp and Pender. To the former belonged the Rovers and their numerous chums, and to the latter Rockley, Ben Hurdy, and boys of a similar turn.
"We want nothing to do with them," said Dick. "They are not our kind at all." "Hullo, Rovers!" cried Pender as they came up. "Hullo, yourself," returned Tom coldly. "What brought you to town?" asked Rockley. "My feet." "Thanks. I thought it might have been your ears. They're big enough." At this sally both Flapp and Pender began to laugh. "That's a good one," said Flapp.
Well, after we have him here we can get him to drink something by hook or by crook, and when he falls asleep we can put an empty bottle in his hand and then somebody can bring Captain Putnam to the spot. That will wipe out Dick Rover's record as a model pupil all in a minute." "Good!" almost shouted Rockley. "We can dose him easily. You just leave that for me."
I went to her at last, for all that I knew she loved me, in passionate self-abasement, white and a-tremble. She was staying with the Rockleys at Woking, for Shena Rockley had been at Bennett Hall with her and they had resumed a close intimacy; and I went down to her on an impulse, unheralded.
"We'll have a little jollification of our own," said Rockley, and his plan was speedily carried into effect, in a fashion which would not have been approved by Captain Putnam or any of the teachers under him. "We must get after Dick Rover," said Flapp, while smoking a black-looking cigar. "As a captain he stands pretty high.
"Well, that is one more we owe that crowd," observed Flapp with increased bitterness. When Jackson was dressed he and Flapp took themselves to another part of the camp, and there met Pender, Rockley, and Ben Hurdy. "Let us take a walk," said Jackson. "I am sick of staying around where the others can stare at me." "Come with me," put in Pender. "I have found something I want to show you."
"You'd never suspect it was there unless you knew of it." "Knew of what?" asked Rockley. "What sort of a mystery are you running us into now?" "Just wait and see." Pender stepped from the path they had been pursuing and pushed aside some overhanging bushes. Beyond was a small clearing, backed up by a high, rocky wall.
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