"There isn't a fellow in the school that likes it," said Redman.
"That's so," replied Bailey. "I don't see the use of the rule either."
"Nor I."
"Some of the fellows have been down to Tunbrook almost every night."
"What's that to us, as long as we didn't go?" said Bailey. "The innocent ought not to be punished with the guilty."
"The colonel couldn't find out who they were," said Redman, with a kind of chuckle. "No fellow would 'blow' on the others."
"It is easy enough to talk," said Bailey, "but what are you going to do?"
"Do? Why, resist it, of course," replied Redman. "I am ready to do so, for one. Let us all stay out to-night till nine o'clock."
"Agreed," added some of the larger boys.
"We shall get punished if we do," suggested Bailey.