"Oh, forget that!" burst out Spud. "I don't think he'll do a thing. Remember the affair occurred on the college grounds, just as Stanley said."
"Say! where is Songbird to-day?" asked Paul Orben. "He ought to have been in this fight."
"He wanted to come very much," answered Sam, "but he had a special errand to do for Mr. Sanderson, who is laid up with a broken ankle."
"Was he doing the errand for Mr. Sanderson or for Minnie?" questioned Stanley; and then a short laugh went up, for it was well known among the young collegians that Songbird Powell and the daughter of Mr. Sanderson, a prosperous farmer of that vicinity, were much attached to each other.
As Sam Rover and his friends reached the college campus, a great cheer arose.
"There he is!"
"Here the conquering hero comes!"
"Let us put him up on our shoulders, fellows!" and a rush was made towards the youngest Rover boy.
"Not much! Not to-day!" returned Sam, and slid back behind some of his friends.
"Aw! come on, Sam!" cried one of the students. "You are the hero of the occasion, and you know it."