"That was very funny, accusing Sheldon of plagiarizing his own stuff.
I never heard anything quite so queer."
"And all on account of his not reading your paper," rejoined Percival with a wink at Jack. "You should make an editorial of this, Mr. Brooke."
"Thank you, I think maybe I will," replied the editor, beginning to peck savagely at his typewriter, and the boys left the office.
When they returned to camp after doing a few errands they were met at the landing by Billy Manners, who said with a grin:
"Well, it is settled. Pete Herring and Merritt have gone to Saratoga, so we will not be bothered with them any longer."
"Just as I thought," said Jack.
CHAPTER XVIII
THE DEPARTURE OF THE BULLIES
Dr. Wise had had something to do with the going away of Herring and Merritt, although the two bullies had already decided that the camp on the river would not be a very pleasant place for them in view of what had occurred in the matter of the prize poem.
While the boys were out on the river and in the woods the doctor called Herring into his study, and looking at him fixedly through his big black-rimmed spectacles, said slowly: