“So here you are!” cried Roy Bock, loudly. “We were wondering what had become of you. Spooning, I suppose?” he added, coarsely.
“We were showing our friends around the grounds,” said Laura, quietly.
“I just heard you were the chaps that pulled the girls out of the lake,” said a student named Grimes.
“Oh, anybody could have done that,” came from another, named Gussic.
“I suppose anybody could have rowed that race, too,” said Jack, sharply. The manner of the rival academy boys was very obnoxious.
“Oh, I heard how your school won that race!” cried Flossie, her eyes beaming.
“I guess our school didn’t have a fair show,” growled Roy Bock. “The Putnam Hall crew started before the pistol went off.”
“That is not true!” exclaimed Pepper. “The start was a very fair one.”
“Humph! Of course you’d say so,” grumbled the student named Gussic.
“I say so because it is true.”