"You——-"
"We'll pitch you off the train if you have the cheek to try to ride in this ear," insisted Purcell.
High School boys, when off on a junket of this kind, are likely to be as wild as college boys. A score of the Gridley youths now jumped up. It looked as though there were going to be a riot.
"Oh, come on," snarled Bayliss, plucking his crony's sleeve.
"We don't want to ride with this truck, anyway."
Into the next car stamped the two young men, their faces red with anger and shame.
"Sneaks!" piped up some one.
CHAPTER XVII
FACING THE "SCHOOL CUT"
At the instant of their entrance into the car the air had been full of merry chatter.
There were many High School girls in this car, and not many vacant seats.