"That's a good one." "Hen Dutcher's voice!" muttered Dave.

"How on earth did that fellow get back here ?" Dick reached for the latch-string, opening the door.

Then these four Grammar School boys received a big surprise.
Hen Dutcher was there, but so were Fred Ripley, Bert Dodge and a half dozen other young fellows, all of them older and larger than the members of Dick & Co.

To make the intrusion still more impudent, Ripley's crowd were all at table, eating the best that the cabin afforded..