“Goin’ to at supper time to-morrow night.”
“Not at the academy?” said Andy.
“No, he said it was to be a surprise on everybody.”
“On some of the fellows,” corrected Pepper.
“You are going to leave the stuff somewhere for him, I suppose,” said Andy.
“Yes—outside the grounds—at seven sharp,” answered Amos Shepard, and then as a farmhand came along, he walked away with the man.
“This is certainly news,” was Pepper’s comment. “Boys, we must get hold of that stuff if we can do it.”
“Right you are,” answered Jack. “But how is it to be done? We don’t know where Mr. Shepard will leave it, and it won’t do to ask him.”
“No, that would make him suspicious,” said Andy. “But I know what we can do.”
“What?”