"Wasn't the other one with him?"
"No, he had to study," explained Reginald; "but Duncan stayed till the last thing was put away. It was awfully nice of him, wasn't it?"
"How'd they happen to be here?"
"Oh, they came up the same time we did, and we called 'em in."
"They'd been at recitation?" persisted Payner.
"No, at the Gym," growled Clarence, who did not see why he should be questioned in this peremptory fashion.
"They'd been here awhile, too," added Reggie, "but they didn't hear any one come to this room."
"I reckon they could if they'd wanted to," Payner observed dryly.
Reggie did not understand Payner's meaning at all, and Clarence only in part. So they stood for a moment in silence; then Reggie spied Clarence's knotted pajamas in the corner of the sofa and was just opening his mouth to exclaim over them, when Clarence spoke.
"Do you mean to say that they knew when it was done?"