One thought occupied the minds of all, and even Mugford, when asked on one occasion by Mr.Blake who were the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot, answered absent-mindedly, "The Philistines!" "Look here, you two," said Diggory one evening, as he scrambled into bed, "we three must think of some way of paying those fellows out for knocking down our snow man.

It would be splendid if we could say that the Triple Alliance had done it, and without telling any one beforehand." "So we will," answered Jack Vance; "that is if you'll think of the plan.
I'm not able to make one, and I'm jolly sure Mugford can't." The speaker turned over and went to sleep; but after what seemed half the night had passed, he was suddenly aroused by several violent tugs at his bed-clothes.

Thinking it nothing less than a midnight raid, Jack sprang up and grasped his pillow.
"No, no, it's not that," said Diggory, "but I wanted to help you; I've got an idea." "W--what about ?" asked the other, in a sleepy voice.
"Why, how we can pay out the Philistines!" "Oh, bother the Philistines!" grumbled Jack, and promptly returned to the land of dreams.
"I wonder where those fellows Vance and Trevanock are ?" said Acton the following afternoon, as the boys were picking up for a game at prisoner's base.

"And there's that dummy of a Mugford--where's he sneaked off to?
he never will play games if he can possibly help it." They set to work, and at the end of about twenty minutes were engaged in a most exciting rally.

Acton had started out to rescue one of the prisoners, while Shaw had rushed forth to capture Acton.