“Paxton and Coulter came in quite broke up,” said Dale.
“Serves them right,” answered Andy promptly.
“They say you three fellows knocked them down on purpose and they are going to make a formal complaint against you,” added the other cadet.
CHAPTER XVII
AN INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE STRONG
“Knocked ’em down!” cried Andy.
“What a whopper!” added Pepper. “Coulter went down for some reason we don’t know, and Paxton ran into him.”
“And we were all ahead of them at the time,” put in Jack.
“Well, I don’t know anything more than what I heard,” said Dale.
“You had nothing at all to do with it?” questioned Harry Blossom.
“No. But I can tell you something worth knowing,” said Jack, and related how Ritter’s cronies had tried to keep them in a “pocket,” as it is termed, and how they had slipped out. “They are mad because of that I guess,” he continued.