"Won't he crow if he manages to get through!" remarked Dobson; and Elgert jumped up.
"He must not get through, Dobson; somehow we must stop him."
"That is all very well. But how can we do it?" queried Dobson, with a shake of his head. And Elgert replied—
"Wait until morning school is over, and I will tell you."
CHAPTER XXVII IN THE DEAD OF THE NIGHT
"I tell you that it can be done. What danger is there, if we are only careful not to make a noise? What a miserable coward you are, Dobson!"
So said Horace Elgert. He and Dobson were together, and morning school was over. They had met that Elgert might unfold his plan for preventing Ralph Rexworth having any chance of gaining the Newlet medal, and also for getting him into disgrace by making it appear that he had been cribbing; and apparently Dobson did not much like the plan, and had been making objections which had called forth Elgert's angry remonstrance.