“Let us alone, will you?” growled Coulter, in a cowed tone.
“Sure, we will!” cried Pepper. “Dale, put those things back, will you?”
While Dale did so, Pepper and Andy held Coulter and Sabine. Jack slept on, totally unconscious of what was taking place.
Despite their protests, Coulter and Sabine were made to march back to the tent from which the other cadets had come. Then they were blindfolded.
“We’ll put them through the forty-fourth degree,” said Pepper.
The others understood what this meant, and in a twinkling the prisoners had their hands bound behind them.
“Let me go!” whined Billy Sabine. “Please don’t hurt me!”
“We won’t hurt you. Keep still.”
“If you don’t let us go, we’ll raise an alarm,” said Coulter.
“If you do we’ll tell how you tried to steal Major Ruddy’s things.”