"Neither will I," came from Plum.
"Nor I," added Jasniff.
"Are you going to disobey?" demanded Job Haskers, who had remained on the scene.
His manner was so menacing that the three students shrank before him.
"It wasn't our fault——" began Plum.
"Enough. I can see through your doings. You tried to get others into trouble to hide your own tracks. This plot will not work with me. In the morning you must clean this apartment thoroughly, or I will punish you severely!" And having thus delivered himself Job Haskers stalked off, leaving Plum, Poole, and Jasniff the maddest students Oak Hall had ever known.
CHAPTER XXV
THE FIGHT IN THE GYMNASIUM
"This is some more of Porter's doings," growled the bully of Oak Hall, when he and his cronies found themselves alone.