CHAPTER V.CAPTURED BY THE ENEMY.
The meal was finally over. There was nothing of the home quiet in it at all. The Codfish well described it as "grab and guzzle and git."
Outside the early dusk had come and the lights of the dormitories twinkled out here and there to meet the moon which had just pushed her disk above the cloudless eastern horizon. The katydids kept up their ceaseless argument in the great elms overhead as Frank and Jimmy walked slowly arm in arm down the yard. Lewis had dashed off to his room to do some long over-due work on a recitation for the early morning hour.
From the other side of the yard came the sound of singing.
"That's the Glee Club tuning up," said Jimmy. "They sing out of doors until it gets too cold to be comfortable."
The song floated over to them beneath the dusky arbor of the elm trees:
Queen's School Days.
Come all you jolly Queen's boys