That good lady noted, with secret pleasure, the well-groomed appearance of her young guests.
"Rah, rah, rah!" came boisterously up the veranda, as the camp visitors of the evening before suddenly appeared.

"Rah, rah, rah!" Then, halting in a compact group midway on the veranda, they shouted in chorus: "S-A-U-N-D-E-R-S! Saunders! Saunders! Siss-boom-a-a-ah! Rah, rah, rah!" "College boys!" exclaimed Susie Sharp in an impatient undertone.
"College boys, and the worst of their kind.

They're noisy nuisances!" "So far as any other guest has been able to discover they haven't any manners," Belle added.
Then, espying the girls and their guests the rah-rah-rah boys came briskly up the veranda.
"Good evening, Miss Meade!" called one of them, lifting his hat.
"Glorious evening, isn't it?
How many dances may I have the honor of claiming at the hop to-night ?" Belle Meade blushed slightly and drew back a step, resenting the young man's familiarity.
In front of the presumptuous youth stepped Dave Darrin, with eyes flashing.
"Kindly keep your distance, young man!" Dave advised, in a tone of dangerous quiet.
"Who asked you to speak ?" inquired the rah-rah youth mockingly.
"I am a friend of the young lady, and she finds your presence an intrusion," replied Darry, controlling himself by a mighty effort.
"All guests of the hotel are supposed to be acquainted," urged the rah-rah youth, reddening a trifle.
"These young ladies do not wish to recognize you and your friends as acquaintances," replied Dave.

"Kindly efface yourselves!" "Don't make your lack of breeding too conspicuous," Dick advised, in a quiet undertone, to another of the intruders who had pushed forward to join in the conversation.
A sudden sense of discomfort seemed to sweep over the eight presuming young men.

They turned and moved away, though muttering among themselves.
"That is the kind of young men I thought they were," Laura observed.
"I am glad that you boys sent them off about their own affairs." Dr.Bentley joined the young people last of all.
"I have just returned from a long walk," he explained.