“As you please,” answered Dale, with a shrug of his shoulders. “We won it, and did so fairly, and that is all there is to it,” and turning on his heel he walked off.
In the meantime Pepper had gone outside to the carryall. Now he came around to a back door of the Pornell gymnasium carrying the box he had brought along.
“Help me, Jack!” he called to his chum.
“What have you got?”
“A surprise for the Pornell boys. I was sure they’d treat us meanly, so I planned to get square.”
With great caution the two cadets took the box to a corner of the building and opened it. Then they took the contents up to a small gallery.
“Now then, let ’em go!” cried Pepper, and Jack obeyed the command.
Soon around the gymnasium half a dozen big black crows were flying. Caw! caw! caw! they cried in their bewilderment.
And as they flew around each crow dropped some cards which had been loosely attached to its wings.
And the cards read: