The sneak of the school whirled around suddenly, and there beheld in the doorway of the next room the Rover boys and their chums in a group, all grinning at him.
“How’d you like the fish, Codfish?” questioned Fred.
“Thought you said you didn’t have any boxes in your room,” came from Jack.
“I didn’t know you were raising frogs for a living,” remarked Randy.
“Why don’t you take those boxes down and put them on the bonfire?” questioned Gif.
“You ought to be ashamed of yourself—littering up your room with all that straw and excelsior,” was Walt’s comment. “If you aren’t careful, you’ll get some mighty bad marks for doing that.”
“What did you do with the man who wanted to see you?” questioned Spouter. “Did you tell him that you were too busy to talk?”
“You’re a fine bunch of fellows!” howled Codfish, not knowing what to say. “You had no business to play a trick like this on me!”
“Play a trick on you?” questioned Andy innocently. “Who has been playing a trick? Why, we don’t know what it is to do anything like that!”
“I think somebody said you wanted to see us, but I don’t know what for,” added Randy.