"Where did he go to, Sam?"
"I can't say," said Sam. "We'll have to organize a regular party to run him down."
It was an easy matter to make Lew Flapp a prisoner. Once captured the former bully of the Hall blubbered like a baby.
"It was Dan Baxter led me into it," he groaned. "It was all his doings, not mine."
When Loring, Gouch, and Sculley were confronted by the party the intoxicated evil-doers were in no condition to offer any resistance. Roundly did they bewail their luck, but this availed them nothing, and without ceremony they were made prisoners, their hands being tied behind them with stout ropes.
"Are you hurt?" asked Dick, of the girls, anxiously.
"Not in the least, Dick," answered Dora. "But, oh! how thankful I am that you came as you did!"
"And I am thankful too," came from Nellie.
"And we are thankful to be on hand," said Tom.
And the others said the same.