“I don’t believe that new tavern is a very good place, either,” said Jack. “Last week they arrested three men there, for getting into a quarrel over a game of cards. They said the men were drinking heavily and gambling. That kind of a resort is no place for any students to visit.”
“Roy Bock is sore on us,” was Andy’s comment. “Every time I meet him he glares at me as if he’d like to chew me up.”
“I know he is down on us,” answered Pepper.
“That’s because Pepper is sweet on those Ford girls,” said Bart Conners. “Say, Imp, which are you going to choose when you grow up?”
“Pep has got to stand aside for Jack and Andy,” put in Dale. “Ever since——”
“Oh, change the subject!” cried Andy, growing red in the face.
“That’s what I say,” added Pepper. “By the way,” he continued. “Somebody said there was to be a surprise to-night.”
“Exactly—at ten-thirty,” answered Henry Lee.
“What is it?” questioned several.
“Well, if you must know, my cousin from Boston was in town to-day, and just for the fun of it he had the Cedarville baker make two big strawberry shortcakes for me. He told me to treat my friends. The baker is to leave them in a box at the apple-tree on the corner of the campus. He had a party to cater to, and he said he would leave the cakes at just ten o’clock.”