For a minute it looked as if they would succeed; when suddenly the irate Wally appeared on the scene, followed by Fisher minor, and shouting, "Cheats! cads! Let our fellows in!" went for the obstructionists.
"Stupid ass!" growled D'Arcy.

"It's all up now.

Why couldn't he have let them be ?" A short and sharp _melee_ followed.

The Classics were reinforced rapidly, and the Moderns, seeing their plot detected and fearing the intervention of the seniors, sullenly raised the blockade, and allowed the door to open.
Whereat in tumbled Percy Wheatfield with five young Moderns at his heels--the very five who had been waiting for the clock to strike in Wally's study.
"What do you mean by keeping us out!" demanded Percy of his brother, who chanced to be the first person he encountered.
"What are you talking about ?" retorted Wally, extremely chagrined to discover who it was he had been helping.

"We were the chaps who let you in! It was your own cads who were keeping you out.