A few interested citizens, however, found the hiding place of the Gridley High School boys and insisted on coming in to shake hands with the boys.
"Take your family and slip out through the back door," Dick whispered to Tom Drake.
"I don't know that I'll ever see you again," murmured Drake huskily, "so I want to say-----" "Don't say anything," Dick smiled back.

"You're all right, from now on.

And we've all learned something to-night.

We'll let it rest there.

Good-bye, and the best of good luck for you and yours." So the Drakes escaped from what would have been an embarrassing scene.