“I’m sure I don’t know.”
In a few minutes Snopper Duke returned, and there was a grin of satisfaction in his eyes as he faced the cadets.
“You will all follow me,” he declared, “and I’ll show you what can be done in this school to cadets who act as outrageously as you have acted. Come! March!” and he led the way out of the private office.
CHAPTER IV
PRISONERS
In one of the wings of the school building there was located a room about twelve feet square with one window which was barred, and this, as my old readers know, was known officially as the school guardroom or prison. Jack and Fred had once been prisoners in this guardroom on a charge that was afterwards proved to be false.
“Gee! I wonder if he’s going to take us to the guardroom?” whispered the youngest of the Rovers.
“I don’t see how he can crowd seven of us into that small room,” answered Randy. “Why, it’s only got one cot in it!”