"You'd better bathe them well with witch hazel or alcohol," returned Jack. "My muscles feel sore, too."
"It took the wind right out of me," came from Andy. "Funny, too—with so much wind all around," he added merrily.
"I can't help but think of how Martell and Brown treated us," said Randy, seriously. "It was as mean as dirt!"
"I believe they would have left us there to drown!" added Fred.
"Oh, I wouldn't like to think that of them," broke in Jack. "Just the same, it was a very dirty thing to do. Not on our account so much as on account of the girls."
When the boys got back, the first person they met was Spouter, who wanted to know how his cousin May had enjoyed the outing. He listened in some alarm to the story the Rovers had to relate.
"It was a narrow shave all right," was the comment. And then his face took on a stern look. "And to think Nappy Martell and Slugger Brown treated you that way! Those fellows ought to be run out of this school!"
The squall on the lake had been noticed by some of the other cadets who had been out on the river; and the news soon spread of the danger into which the Rovers and their companions had run. Gif, Ned, Walt, and several others wanted to know the particulars of the affair, and all were loud in their denunciation of the cadets who had been running the motor boat.
"Spouter is right!" declared Gif. "Those fellows ought to be run out of Colby Hall!"
"After this I want nothing more to do with them!" added Ned.