"We’ll stampede the whole bunch," said Brad Buckhart.
"We must have a signal for the new ‘ends-around’ formation," said Frank. "I suggest ‘On the jump,’ and think it best to keep using that formation repeatedly after the signal until the signal is changed. Do you understand that?”[that?”]
"Please make it a trifle plainer," suggested Douglass.
"‘On the jump’ is the signal for the new ‘ends-around’ formation which I have illustrated here on the board, and the play is to be kept up after that signal is given till another signal is spoken. Surely that is plain."
"I understand it now," said Hugh.
Dick Merriwell had risen, without saying anything, and now sauntered back toward one of the dark corners. Several times he had heard a slight noise in that corner, and now he took a fancy to investigate.
The others looked at Dick curiously, but, without paying any attention to them, the dark-eyed lad penetrated to the corner. Then, of a sudden, he plunged under a bench and pounced on a figure he saw crouching there.
"A spy!" he cried.
Then there was a commotion in that room.