If it does break out, fire two shots for an alarm." "Yes, sir." "I'll send Alexander Pop here with more water and with some lunch, for you'll have to stay all night," went on the owner of the school.
Alexander Pop was a colored man who had come to the school to wait on the table.
"Yes, sir," answered Snuggers.

He did not much relish remaining in the woods all night, but he felt that he had to obey orders.
One by one the cadets and the teachers returned to Putnam Hall.

The conflagration in the woods had rather broken up the anticipated celebration in honor of the football victory.
"Now, I want to know who placed those tar-barrels in the woods," said Captain Putnam, when he had assembled the cadets in the school building.
"It was Jerry Cole, the roofer from Cedarville," answered John Fenwick, a small youth usually called Mumps.

He was known as a toady and a sneak, and was very chummy with Dan Baxter.
"How do you know, Fenwick ?" "I saw him with the barrels on his wagon." "Why should he put the barrels there ?" "I will tell you," answered Pepper, stepping forward.

"I bought them to celebrate with to-night.