But not a boy spoke up.
“I put you on your Pi Eta oath,” announced Dawson.
But even this placing them on their most sacred honor had no additional effect upon the society boys.
Several of the members of the other Greek letter societies gathered about the Pi Etas—for they realized that a crisis had arisen that affected all the social organizations of the school—and they wanted to plan how to meet it.
When, therefore, they learned that none of the society members had been implicated in the trouble, they cheered loudly.
“The thing to do now, is to find out who told ‘Princy’”—which was the nickname the boys applied to the principal of the school—“that it was the work of the Pi Etas,” said Dawson.
“It strikes me that the best thing to do is for some of us to go in and have a talk with him,” declared Longback, when none of the boys offered any suggestion as to who the bearer of the information might be.
“Why not let the Pi Etas settle it themselves?” proposed another boy.
“Because it concerns the rest of us just as much as it concerns them—as a matter of fact I believe it concerns us more; because I’m sure that not one of the Pi Etas had anything to do with it.”
“Yes, and if any of us should go into Princy’s office, he and everybody else in the school, would think we had come to confess,” declared Paul.