"But I felt so wholly certain Ted's fellows would start in to break us up that I felt I had to spring that torpedo trick in order to shut the other crowd up in advance." "Oh, you did, did you ?" thought Teall angrily.
"But now there's something else to be thought of," Prescott went on.

"Teall is bound to feel sore and ashamed, and he won't rest until be has done his best to get even with us." "Teall had better leave us alone," replied Tom, shaking his head.
"Ted's brain isn't any too heavy, and he'll never be equal to getting the better of a crowd with a Dick Prescott in it." "We won't do any bragging just yet," Prescott proposed.
"That's right.

You'd better not," Ted growled under his breath.
"Fellows," announced Dan Dalzell, "I've made an important discovery." "I wonder if he saw me ?" flashed through Teall's mind, as he tried to lie flatter than before.
"Name the discovery," begged Hazelton.
"Look at your watches, fellows," Dan continued, "and I think you'll find that it's now proper time for us to go in swimming." "So it is," Darrin agreed.

"Hurrah!" Little more was said for a few moments.

All the fellows of Dick & Co.