"If you don't come over except when you're especially sent for," declared Miss Meade, "you'll wake up some morning in the near future and find us gone on to the next camping place."
Dick had already told Dr. Bentley of the fugitive, Tag Mosher, and the fact that that young offender was at large in the woods, and armed.
"I'm not afraid of him," declared the doctor bluntly, "and I shall always be within sound of the camp. It wouldn't take you boys long to get over here, either, at need."
Dick now reluctantly called his chums away, as Mrs. Bentley and the high school girls might want a little time to themselves.
"It's going to be great to have such company right at hand," declared
Darry gleefully.
"Only I must warn you of one thing," retorted Dick.
"What?"
"You remember the errant that brought us into the woods?"
"Football training!"
"Exactly, and even the welcome presence of the girls mustn't be allowed in the least to interfere with the serious and hard work that we have ahead of us for the honor of good old Gridley High School!"