And they had a very good idea that wherever it was, they would give Forder's house a very wide berth.
"Tell you what!" exclaimed Wally, slapping his brother on the back so hard as to cause him to yell loud enough to bring every prefect of Fellsgarth on to the spot.

"Tell you what, old chappies; of course we will! Why ever didn't we think of it before--eh ?" "Think of what ?" "Why, we'll go up Hawk's Pike, of course." "Of course we will," said everybody.
What mattered it to _them_ that Hawk's Pike had defied the ordinary tourist for generations?
_They_ weren't ordinary tourists, or anything like.
"You come over for us at six," said Wally.

"Bring the grub we left in your room.

It'll be a regular sell for all those chaps.

We'll make a day of it." It seemed a magnificent solution of the problem; and on the strength of it the five truants departed, not without misgivings, for their quarters.
The rope was still dangling from their window, and Cash, whose father was in the Navy, was selected by general consent as the member of the party best qualified to make the first ascent.