"Yes; but wait till the last minute—take him after supper."
"All right. It's settled then?"
"All settled; and Merriwell will have a dandy pair of eyes on him to-morrow!"
Dunnerwust and Mulloy had been watching Bascomb and Reynolds.
"Vot you pelief dose shneaks vos down to, ain'd id?" asked the Dutch boy.
"Well, Handy, me b'y," replied Barney, "it's me proivate opinion, which Oi don't moind publicly ixprissing, thot they're plannin' mischief."
"Yaw, I pets me your boots you vos righd. Dey don'd haf their headts togeder near vor nottings, py shimminy!"
"Oi'd loike to take th' spalpanes by th' ears an' rap their hids togither wance," declared the Irish lad. "Oi'd make thim see stars."
At this moment Bascomb clapped his thigh and cried:
"That's the scheme! That will do it!"