He meant to use Snell well, and let it go at that.
The boys thoroughly enjoyed their clandestine feast.

It was a luxury a hundred times dearer than a feast from similar things could have been had there been no secrecy about it and had it been perfectly allowable.
They gorged themselves till they could eat no more, and the contents of the box proved none too plentiful for their ravenous appetites.

When they had finished, nothing but a few crumbs were left.
"There," sighed Harvey Dare, "I haven't felt so full as this before since the last time Harris had a box." "Nor I," said Wat Snell, lighting a cigarette.

"Have one, Merriwell ?" Frank declined to smoke, but his example was not followed by any of the other lads.

Each one took a cigarette and "fired up." "You ought to smoke, Merriwell," said Dare.