“I hope not!” exclaimed Fred. “Bronson and Jinks are about all we can stand as it is.”
“Wouldn’t Bronson and Jinks be glad to have him there?” said Bobby. “They’d be as thick as peas in a pod in less than no time.”
But further comment was cut short by the brake man throwing open the door and shouting:
“All out for Rockledge!”
CHAPTER X
ROCKLEDGE SCHOOL
The boys reached instinctively for their bags. Then they remembered that they had none, and looked at each other with a sheepish grin on their faces.
“Nothing doing in that line,” mourned Fred. “I wonder if we’ll find them in the station.”
They stepped off the platform into a crowd of their schoolmates, who had come down to welcome them. There they were, shouting and laughing and all talking at once—Billy Bassett, Jimmy Ailshine, “Sparrow” Bangs, Howell Purdy and a host of others. They fairly mobbed the newcomers and were for dragging them off at once to the trolley car that ran to the school. But the boys explained that they first had to look after their missing baggage and they all trooped into the station.
“Haven’t we got a lot to tell you fellows!” exclaimed Mouser. “You just wait till you hear it all!”
“Caught in a snowslide,” volunteered Pee Wee.