For a long moment, Bunny stood fast on the field, while the others of the squad drifted toward the dressing room. Rodman Cree he could see waiting uneasily at one side, as if he wished to come up and speak to him. But though Bunny had none of Specs' feeling toward Rodman, at that particular moment he did not wish to speak to anybody. He stared toward the road, pretending to be unconscious of the other's presence.
From the basement floated the tenor voice of S. S., singing the final refrain of the "Nobody" song:
"Who cares for us an awful lot?
Who always helps us on the dot?
Who is the only friend we've got?"
And the final word, roared by all of the six Scouts, came out in a thundering:
"NOBODY!"
CHAPTER VI
BEFORE THE WIND