“There are Crabtree and Snuggers looking all around the place! I’ll wager a bun to a bakery that they think we have run away from the Hall!”
Jack looked out also, and both boys saw the teacher and the general-utility man walk all around the campus and then disappear in the direction of the gymnasium.
“I hope they have a good time looking for us,” observed Pepper, with a broad grin.
“Maybe they’ll come up here next.”
“If they do we’ll have to lay low.”
Nearly an hour passed, and then they heard footsteps in the hall outside. Instantly both became quiet as mice.
“They don’t seem to be around here,” they heard Peleg Snuggers remark.
“Let us look in all the rooms,” answered Josiah Crabtree.
The boys almost held their breath as they heard the door tried.
“This is locked up,” said Snuggers.