This is the kind of a fellow you are playing cards with, gentlemen." The faces of the boys were black with anger, Wat Snell being excepted.
Seeing his opportunity, Snell quickly slipped away, and before he could be stopped, had bolted from the boathouse.
Gage took advantage of the excitement to make a break for liberty, and he, too, got away.
"What a howling shame!" said Harvey Dare, in disgust.

"We'd tar and feather them both.

Anyway, they'll have to get out of the academy." The boys who had put money into the game were given what they had invested.

The rest was turned over to Hodge.

It made his losing nearly square.
"This settles me," he said, grimly.