Harry Blossom was in the music-room, playing on the piano and singing for the benefit of several of his friends. Later on, however, he came away and told what he had seen.
“I thought they were strangers, but now you mention it, I think they may have been some cadets out on a lark.”
“Certainly no men out to rob anybody would act as they did,” said Pepper, thoughtfully. “Why, they acted, for all the world, as if it was a huge joke!”
“Well, this is a mystery, true enough,” said Andy, and the others agreed with him. They concluded to say nothing more about the affair, but to keep their eyes “peeled,” as Pepper expressed it, for the next appearance of the two persons in green.
It galled Reff Ritter to see Jack Ruddy triumphant in the matter of the inspection, and the bully wondered to himself how he could make the young major “eat humble pie,” as he termed it.
“Don’t you meet Ruddy on the flying-rings tomorrow?” asked Paxton.
“Yes,” was Ritter’s short answer.
“Well, you ought to be able to best him there—you’re such a perfect gymnast.”
“Ruddy has been taking extra lessons from the gym. teacher. I just heard of it this morning. That’s the reason he was so ready to take me up,” responded Reff Ritter, sourly.
“Are you afraid to meet him?” asked Paxton in astonishment.