The passing watchman heard the question, so he answered: "He says he is your cousin, sir!"
"He is not my cousin," replied Atterbury with strange sternness. "And, since the fellow is here in disguise, it ought to be our business to ask him some questions. Come on, fellows!"
Atterbury strode out of the shadow, followed just a second later by "Durry" and "Doug."
The prowler's first instinct was to run, but he dare not; that would proclaim guilt.
"See here, sir," demanded Atterbury, striding straight up to the stoop-shouldered, bewhiskered one, "your name is Jordan, isn't it?"
"No!" lied the wretch, in a voice that he strove to disguise.
"Yes, it is," insisted Atterbury. "Rooming with you nearly four years, I can't be fooled with any suddenly pickled voice. Jordan, what are you doing here in disguise?"
"I don't know that my presence here is any of your business," growled the ex-cadet.
"Yes; it is," insisted Atterbury. "And you'll give us an account, too, or we'll lay hold of you and turn you over to some one official."
At that threat Jordan turned to bolt. As he did so, three cadets sprang after him. At the third or fourth bound they had hold of him and bore him, fighting, to the earth.