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168 Macklin. "And if it does, it will serve those fellows right." He was not loyal enough to wish Oak Hall success if he could have no part in the victory.

"Morr and Porter and Lawrence are trying to run everything to suit themselves," grumbled Puffers. "It's an outrage."

"They shan't run things very much longer," declared Plum. "I'll show them that we have rights which they are bound to respect."

So the talk ran on among the discontented ones until the football field at Rockville was reached. Gus Plum and his friends had come up on their wheels, which they left at the hotel shed.

"Come and have something on me," said the bully, and led the way to a back room of the hotel. Puffers was willing, and the sneak of the school did not have will power enough to resist. Drinks were ordered, and then Gus Plum passed around a package of cigarettes.

"This is something like," declared the bully, blowing some smoke towards the ceiling. "For all I care their football game can go to grass."

"I'm with you on that," answered Puffers. He had very little spending money of his own, and was quite willing to sponge on Gus Plum to the full extent of the latter's purse.

In the meantime the other students had gone to the football field. The little stand there was