"I'll have the cart there at four this afternoon.

Suppose you fellows meet us there, with your bedding and clothing for the trip ?" This also was agreed upon.
While the boys stood there chatting not one of them suspected how eagerly they were being watched by two pairs of eyes.
On the same side of the street, only a door below them, was an unrented cottage.

One of the windows of this cottage, upstairs, was open, though closed blinds concealed the fact.

Between these blinds peered two young men.
That cottage was the property of Mr.Dodge, vice-president of one of Gridley's banks.
Readers of "_The High School Left End_" have good reason to remember the banker's son, Bert Dodge.

He and his friend, Bayliss, also the scion of a wealthy family, had been members of the notorious "sorehead" group in the last year's football squad at Gridley High School.
As our readers well remember, Dodge and Bayliss had carried their opposition to Dick & Co.