CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE.
THE WATCH-TOWER.
Wally's study--he always liked to call it a "study," but his friends preferred to call it a den--could comfortably accommodate six.

The juniors had frequently to own that nine, the normal size of the party, was a jam.

When, in addition to that, a big, brawny man was thrown in, it came to be a serious question as to how the four walls would sustain the strain.
Wally, however, was determined to manage somehow.

He indignantly rejected Percy's offer to his more spacious apartment over the way.

No.
He had captured the lion--he and D'Arcy--and they would entertain him in their own den.
After all, it was not so bad.