“Well, you will know before I am done with you.”
“You let me go,” said Coulter, uneasily. “You haven’t got any right to detain me in this fashion.”
“Well, I am taking the right,” answered the young major sturdily. “I want you to understand——”
Jack got no further, for with a sudden twist and a push Gus Coulter freed himself, leaped through the crowd, and dashed away.
“After him!” yelled Pepper. “He mustn’t get away like this!”
“I reckon we can catch him,” put in Andy, and then all of the cadets started in pursuit of the fleeing one.
Coulter was badly scared—why he could not exactly tell—and he ran like a deer. But the others kept on his track.
“There he goes!” cried Jack, as the running lad darted behind a heavy clump of bushes.
The next instant there arose on the air a wild cry of dismay and alarm.
“Oh, dear! Help me, somebody!”