One was tall and handsome, and the other stout and with a round, chubby face beaming with good humor.
"Larry Colby!" cried Dick, leaping up and grasping the tall boy's hand.
"I'm awfully glad to meet you.

Returning to the Hall, of course ?" "Yes," was the answer from the Rover boys' old chum.

"Isn't it odd that I should be thinking of you just as we meet ?" and he shook hands.
"Hullo, if it ton't peen dem Rofer brudders alretty," cried the round-faced lad, with a twinkle in his eyes.

"I dink me you vos left der Hall for goot, yah!" "Hans Mueller!" came from Sam.

"Then you are going back, too?
I thought you had scarlet fever ?" "Not much I ain't," said the German youth.