Now, hurry back, for, if Garwood suspects, and shows fight, it will take all four of you to hold him.

But if you all talk naturally and pleasantly, I don't believe he will be suspicious, or make any effort to get away." Dave nodded, turning back, while Dick and Greg hastened to the road.

Barely had they turned into the highway, when, a short distance, ahead, they espied a boy standing under a tree.
"There's Ted, and he has Martin's clothes with him," called Dick quietly.

"Let's hurry up to him and get him to take the clothes back." "A precious lot I care whether Hi Martin ever has any clothes again," Greg retorted.
"Oh, well, Greg, there's such a thing as a joke, and there's such a thing as carrying it too far.

Hi Martin has had his dose of punishment already.