"His uncle ought to be in prison this minute." "Have the authorities heard anything of Merrick ?" asked Songbird.
"Not a thing." "I dink me dot feller has skipped to Europe alretty," vouchsafed Hans Mueller.

"He vould peen afraid to stay py der United States in, yah!" And the German boy shook his head wisely.
"Personally I never want to set eyes on Sobber again," said Dick, with a shrug of his broad shoulders.

"The idea of introducing that deadly snake into the school was the limit.

Why, half a dozen of us might have been bitten instead of only poor Pell." "Maybe he did it only for a joke," said Larry Colby, another of the cadets.
"If he did, it was carrying a joke altogether too far--endangering one or more human lives.

I don't believe in that sort of fun." "Nor do I," came from several.
"If he is in Europe with his uncle perhaps I'll meet him there," said Larry Colby.