Pretty cute of him, too, sneaking back and hunting for the evidence.

I suppose it'll wind up in Tip being locked up with Leon, and eventually going to the Reform School." "Few people will be sorry," observed Hugh, although he felt a twinge when his mind reverted to the mothers of the two boys.
"I wonder what Nick thinks of it all," mused Thad.

"He must realize that he had a narrow squeak of it; because, only for that sudden change of heart on his part, brought around by what you did about those nickeled skates, he might have been in the cooler right now, along with crafty Leon." As they had arrived at the point where their paths diverged, the two chums separated.

Hugh had returned home somewhat earlier than customary, as he had something to do for his mother, just as Owen had admitted was the cause of his absence from the ice that same afternoon.
Usually boys like to linger on the ice until long after the shades of night have settled down and time for supper is perilously near.

With a jolly bonfire blazing on the bank, and the skaters going and coming all the while, the prospect is so alluring that it is indeed difficult for any lad to break away.