"No; I have concluded not to join in the scrape," replied Richard, gravely.
"Why not?"
"Because I don't think it is right; and I think if we speak to the colonel about the matter, he will make it all right."
"I tell you, Grant, he has no right to make such a regulation," added Nevers, with energy; "and I, for one, am not going to beg him not to do that which he has no right to do."
"Come, Grant, you are almost the only fellow in the school who won't join the mutiny," said Redman.
"The fellows are all in for it, and you had better come," added Bailey.
"No; I won't join," replied Richard, decidedly.
"Come down to the grove, whether you join or not," suggested Nevers.
"I am willing to go down to the grove, but I shall not go in for this scrape."
"Come along, then."