Only one of the ten boys of the freshman class who were invited attended.

Eight girls of the same class were invited, but only two of them accepted.

Laura Bentley decided, at the last moment, against attending.
Within ten days two important games came off between the Gridley H.S.and other crack high school teams.

Gridley won both.
"It would be cheeky in me to go to the game, when I'm suspended---hardly a H.S.boy, in fact," Dick explained to his partners.

"But you go.
"No, sir!" muttered Greg Holmes.
"Not if you feel that you can't go," protested Harry Hazelton.
"Dick & Co.