"President Hopkins says he can't interfere, boys," answered Roycroft, slowly. "It's mighty easy to see that he's sore on our crowd, too—good as told me so."
"Of course that isn't any news to me," sniffed Owen Lawrence. "Didn't Brown get handed the same dose?"
"There's been enough talk about this thing, fellows," broke in "Crackers." He looked over the rim of his glasses at the noisy crowd; then, raising his voice so that it penetrated to all parts of the big room, he added significantly: "What we want now is action."
CHAPTER XXI
ROCKVILLE IS PUZZLED
Saturday!
The inter-scholastic series!
Rockville Academy!
These were the thoughts uppermost in the boys' minds, for the great day so long anticipated had at last arrived.