Away darted the rainbow eight, Darrin's victim being on his feet by this time and foremost in the retreat.
"Rah, rah, rah!" came back on the air as the high school boys broke a formation for which they had no further need at present.
"Those fellows are plainly guests at the hotel, and we're going to have trouble with them yet," Prescott predicted wisely.
CHAPTER XIII
A SNUB AND THE QUICK RETORT
At half-past five o'clock the next day, Dick & Co. strolled up to the porch of the Ashbury Terraces Hotel.
From one of the parlors a cry of recognition in a girlish voice floated out. Then appeared the Gridley High School girls, with Susie Sharp in the lead.
"I thought you told us you didn't have any other than your hike clothing with you!" Susie cried accusingly to Tom Reade.
"We didn't. We told you the truth," Reade rejoined.
"Then these——-"