ile the bark torch burned dimly his

" asked Jack, as if he

st!" repe

vited Bert. "You

assed this place before. Here are some of the ashes I knocked off the bark torch,"

t and the others we

of opera glasses to see it. But how are we going to get back to school? Or even on the right road? I wish

," insisted Tom. "We took a lon

fellow directed us wr

or

If he could have seen that same farm-hand gloating over a crumpled doll

at part of it," spoke Tom. "The que

suggested Bert, "and stick to it, hills or no

" asserted Tom,

ade of bark, and, each one lighting his own, and holdi

exclaimed Tom, as he fe

"Lucky we got the

rumbled Bert, as he stumbl

in a circle again. Their torches smoked and spluttered, as the rain increased

as he stepped into a bog-hole up to h

said Tom, with a laugh.

ve got half an hour to make the gym, for it's half-past seven n

is looks like something here, fellows," he added, as he emerged from the woodland path up

self now, even though he did not know just where the path was coming out. It was br

nted Tom, as he cam

rong?" as

r something. Yes, It's

struck some so

ks," put in Jack. "I'd like to rub his nose

Tom had come to a halt at the barrier. It was a rail fence of the "snake" variet

ome sort of human habitation. Let's head for it,

ied Jack, as he leaped the

, the torch of George b

he landed in it. "Look out, and

e floundered on through the field. They could hear him crashing down the corn stalks, and be

called George. "My t

ight grew plainer as they advanced toward it, and, in a little while, trampling thro

s who sent us wrong," asserted Ja

in the big front yard of a farmhouse. There was a barking of dogs, and, as Tom's chums

at d'ye want thi

ere out on a cross-country run, and we lost o

on, and a man, with a small bunch of whiskers o

s," said Tom. "We

through a cornfie

in accents of anger. "D'ye mean t' say

We couldn't see in the dark, and it was the onl

, that's what I will! Knocked down my corn; did ye? Well, ye kin find th' road the best way ye like now. I'll never tell ye. And I want t' see how much damage ye done.