“Um; members of your class, however, are they not?”
“No, sir.”
“What! Then why the green paint?”
“Because—because—” But Kendall couldn’t answer that without informing on the Broadwood fellows.
“Well?”
“It wasn’t used because it was a class color, sir; it—it had another significance.” And Kendall found time to be secretly proud of that word before Mr. Collins went on:
“Now you tell me that you went out there to prevent the others from doing what they had planned to do. What method did you intend to use, Burtis?”
“I meant to scare them away.”
“Ah! And how did you propose to scare them away?”
“By hiding and turning the searchlight on them, sir. And that’s what I did, only the light wouldn’t work at first and they got some paint on before it would work. And then they ran away.”