CHAPTER VI
A GLOOMY PROSPECT FOR JUD
“It’s Jud Mabley!” exclaimed one of the scouts, instantly recognizing the face of the unlucky youth who had fallen part way through the window.
Jud was a boy of bad habits. He had applied to the scouts for membership, but had not been admitted on account of his unsavory reputation. Smarting under this sting Jud had turned to Hank Lawson and his crowd for sympathy, and was known to be hand-in-glove with those young rowdies.
“He’s been spying on us, that’s what!” cried Bobolink, indignantly.
“And learning our plans, like as not!” added Tom Betts.
“He ought to be caught and ridden on a rail!” exclaimed a third member of the troop, filled with anger.
“I’d say duck him in the river after cutting a hole in the ice!” called out another boy, furiously. 39
“Huh! first ketch your rabbit before you start cookin’ him!” laughed Jud in a jeering fashion, as he waved them a mocking adieu through the broken window, and then vanished from view.