Dave was the next so favored.

Tom and Harry rapidly shared that fate.
"Now lead these cattle to the stable!" roared Fred, gripping Dick by the collar and yanking him to his feet.
The battle being lost, Dick and the others could do no more than submit to being pushed outside the cabin, Hen Dutcher following and making faces at all of the captives.
Around to the cook shack the four Grammar School boys were led.

The door was flung open, and in they were thrust.
There on the floor, bound hand and foot and gagged, lay Greg and Dan.
These two members of Dick & Co.

had been overpowered and placed here, but only one look at their faces was needed to show that both still had their fighting blood up.
"Now, don't let us hear anything from you boobies," commanded Fred Ripley, "or I'll send a committee out here to attend to you in mighty short order!" Then the door of the cook shack was closed on Dick & Co.
"Well, of all the downright mean tricks!" grumbled Tom Reade.
"That's too complimentary a name for such human truck!" cried Dave Darrin angrily.

"Their first scheme, to come down here in the night and try to scare us, wasn't so fearfully mean, but this is assault and robbery." "Never mind about it, now," Dick answered.