"What did you and Darry say, when the explosion came off?" asked
Dan Dalzell, as Dick & Co. walked on again.
"I don't remember just what Darry said," Prescott confessed reluctantly.
"As for me, I remember just what I said."
"What?"
"I said just what the man on the clubhouse steps said."
"And what was that?" pressed Dalzell.
"That's what you're going to find out if you win the game from
South Grammar to-morrow."
"Then the game is as good as won already," declared Tom solemnly,
"for we're in that frame of mind where we've got to know what
the man on the clubhouse steps said."
Through the evening, and the long night that followed, Chief Coy
had two of his policemen out searching the woods where Garwood
had last been seen. Mr. Winthrop added three detectives to the
chase. When morning came the "queer" inventor was still at large.
He had not even been seen since Dick and Dave had lost sight
of him.
"The last time that I put this class on honor," announced Old
Put, when the morning session began, "we had one of the best records
of good behavior during the day that I can remember. I will,
therefore, announce that this class is on honor again to-day,
and that, no matter what the breaches of discipline, no pupil
will be kept after school to-day.
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