In the next volume of the series, called "The Putnam Hall Encampment," I told how the cadets left the Hall and marched to a distant lake.

Their camping outfit was sent ahead by wagons, but the wagons got lost, and were finally found in the possession of Roy Bock and some other students of Pornell, they having made off with them while the drivers were in a roadhouse obtaining refreshments.

For this trick, Pepper and some of the others got after the Pornellites and made them prisoners in a cave, from which they could escape only by going out a back way, through some water and mud, and thorny bushes.
While they were playing a certain trick in Cedarville, Jack and Pepper fell in with a youth named Bert Field.

He was a queer lad, but did the chums a good turn, and in return they promised to help him.

He was trying to locate a certain old man who was defrauding him out of some property.