“All right.” The school sneak looked around the hall, to make certain nobody was listening. “Ritter and his crowd are going to do you up brown to-night,” he said coarsely.
“Do us up brown? What do you mean?” And now Pepper was all attention.
“I don’t know any particulars. But I heard Reff say that, when he was talking to Coulter, Paxton and Sabine. I think they are going to visit your dormitory after you are asleep.”
“What else did they say?”
“I didn’t catch much, for Reff saw me and ordered me away. I heard them mention starch. He told some kind of a joke about putting the starch in you instead of taking it out.”
“Hum!” mused Pepper. “Is that all?”
“Yes. But don’t say I told you, please!” pleaded Mumps.
“I won’t. And here is the candy.”
The Imp held out the bag and the sneak snatched it eagerly, and looked inside.
“Huh!” he said, indignantly. “There is only one chocolate in the bag!”