“Not for Joseph.”
“We shall be left.”
“That’s just what I want. I’m not going to present myself before the principal in this condition—not if I know it.”
Laybold, finding that it was not convenient to stand, seated himself by the side of his companion. Presently they discovered a party of officers on their way to the boats, and they staggered into a lane to escape observation. The two students, utterly vanquished by “finkel,” did not appear at the landing, and the boats left without them.
CHAPTER XI.
ON THE WAY TO THE RJUKANFOS.
“What may the Rjukanfos be?” asked Clyde Blacklock, after his courier had started on his return to Christiania.
“O, it’s a big thing,” replied Sanford. “You can bet high on it.”