"Somehow it seems rather mean to hide away and then go and tell what you've overheard.

I think it's best to leave it, and keep a sharp look-out and see what happens next." "Fancy Fletcher inventing that cipher," said Jack Vance, "and being mixed up with that lot.

He is a double-faced beast; it was just like him making that underhanded attack on the football team." "Yes," added Mugford; "and fancy Gull being in both those rows, and making every one believe he wasn't! They must be a deep lot." "So they are," answered Diggory complacently; "but they aren't a match for the Triple Alliance." "I say, what made Noaks search your pockets ?" asked Jack, as the three friends prepared to break up their "confab." "Oh, for a long time I couldn't imagine, and then all of a sudden I thought why it was.

Don't you see, he wanted to find if I had any more fusees.

My stars, I was glad 'Rats' had only given me one instead of the box!".