Even many of the girls, it proved, had taken up with the Coventry idea.
"Fellows, come to my place after you've had your luncheons," Bayliss whispered around among his cronies, after school was out for the day.

"I---I guess there are a---a few things that we want to talk over among ourselves.

So come over, and we'll use the carriage house for a meeting place.

Maybe we'll organize a club among ourselves, or---or---do something that shall shut us out and away from the common herd of this school." When the dozen or more met in the Bayliss carriage house that afternoon there were some defiant looks, and some anxious ones.
"I don't know how you fellows feel about this business," began Hudson frankly.

"But I've had a pretty hot grilling at home by Dad.