CHAPTER XXII.
THE MYSTERY GOES ON When nightfall came and Pepper still remained a prisoner, both Jack and Andy commenced to worry about their chum.
"It's a shame to keep him in that cold room," said the young major.
"Wonder if we can get him out on the sly ?" returned the acrobatic youth.
"I'd be willing to run quite a risk to set him free, so he could sleep in his own bed to-night." "Let us sneak down after dark and see what we can do," suggested Jack.
Of course the fact that Pepper was a prisoner was known throughout the whole school.

Many who had laughed over the teeth affair thought it too bad that The Imp should be locked up in a cold room.

But others, including Reff Ritter and Gus Coulter, said it served him right.
"He was too fresh," growled Coulter.
"Let him stay there a week; it will do him good," added Ritter.
"You leave things to old Crabtree," said Dan Baxter.

"He knows how to put the screws on a cadet." "Right you are," came from Ritter.
The one boy who had little to say was Mumps.

The sneak was scared almost to death, feeling certain that Pepper would square up with him as soon as liberated.