Professors Jenks and Scotch would not say much of anything, only mutter and glare daggers at each other, while Professor Gunn was too furious and too confused to tell anything straight.

Barney and Hans declared over and over that they had been bitten by "centipedes," and showed the wounds.
The jumbled story told by them puzzled the lieutenant more than anything else.
Having been released, the cats had taken flight.
Lieutenant Gordan did not say much, but the expression on his face told that he meant to investigate the affair thoroughly.

The time, however, was not suitable for an investigation, and so he ordered everybody to their rooms.

Barney called for a drink of milk and vinegar, but the lieutenant assured him that he was not in danger of dying immediately if he did not obtain what he desired, so both the Irish lad and the Dutch boy were sent to their rooms, like the others.
In a brief time silence settled over the academy, and no one could have fancied there had been such an uproar there a short while before.
In the morning, Bartley said to Frank.
"What in the world has got into you, old man?
You are full of the Old Harry, lately.

You will have this academy turned bottom up, if you keep on." Frank smiled.
"We've got to have something to break the monotony," he said.