"Come on! Join the festive throng!" cried Andy, seizing his brother by the hand. "This is the day we celebrate! How did you make out with Old Thorny?"
"Oh, he's down and out. Mrs. Morton has her money and everything is lovely."
"Good," broke in Andy, "and there's more news. Thorny is going to leave. He and Dr. Doolittle and the millionaire had a row and Old Thorny quit. Wow! but I'm glad. We're going to stay here now and be the champion baseball players next spring. Come on. Let joy be unconfined. Mrs. Stone had a bang-up supper ready for us. Wow!"
And a little later formal announcement was made of the rejuvenation of Riverview Hall at an impromptu supper which the matron prepared for the lads. And such a supper as it was! They talk about it yet in the new school.
"Well, now we can settle down to study after we've made ourselves champions," said Frank, as he got up from the table.
"Yes, I wonder what will happen next?" asked Andy.
What did, and how the Racer boys conducted themselves in another succession of surprising happenings will be told in the next volume of this series, to be called "Frank and Andy in a Winter Camp; or, The Young Hunters' Strange Discovery."
And so, as the lads are making merry over the supper, and rejoicing in the great victory, and in the prospects of a new school to take the place of the old one—in which work none had such a prominent part as the Racer boys—we will take leave of them and their chums.
THE END