He enlisted Bayliss, and the pair sought to "cut out" Prescott and Darrin with Laura and Belle.
Neither Dick nor Dave was in love.

Both were too sensible for that.

Both knew that love affairs were for men old enough to know their own minds.

Yet the friendship between the four young people had been a very proper and wholesome affair, and much pleasure had been derived on all sides.
Nowadays, however, Bert and Bayliss managed to be much out and around Gridley while the football squad was at practice.

Almost daily this pair met Laura and Belle, as though by accident, and the two young seniors usually managed, without apparent intrusion, to walk along beside Laura and Belle, often seeing the pair to the home gate of one or the other.
"You two fellows want to look out," Purcell warned Dick and Dave, good-naturedly, one day.