Why, she says K.K.never missed his supper before in all his life.

It'd have to be something _fierce_ to keep him away from his best meal of the whole day." Hugh was thinking swiftly.

He realized that this was no little matter to be dismissed as unimportant.

Something certainly must have happened to detain K.K.for all this time.

Several hours had elapsed since the other fellows reached the terminus of the long run at the athletic grounds.