"Yet it goes against the grain to halt just in order to let that gang slip by without seeing us." "There are five of us against your single vote, Darry," Dick reminded him.

"Let us have our way." "Well, we don't need to skulk, do we ?" queried Dave.
"Oh, no," Dick assured him.

"All we will do is to keep quiet and not bring on a fight with that tough lot." "Huh!" muttered Darrin, as though he could not see the difference between that and skulking.
Presently, after holding a hand behind him to signal silence and stealth, Prescott started on in the lead.

He wanted, if possible, to see just where Ripley, Dodge and their crowd went, so that the Grammar School boys would not run too suddenly into them.
The "Co." trailed on in Indian file behind their leader.
Finally Dick halted again, his chums crowding on his heels.

They looked out into a clearing beyond.