Part 22 (2/2)
”No, Jack; it won't do any good,” answered the blindfolded girl And as he took her hand and pressed it warmly, she added: ”Please don't worry aboutto, Ruth,” he answered in a low tone ”Somehow, I feel that your injury is my fault”
”Nonsense! It was Gabe Werner's fault entirely! That boy ought really to be in jail! But, Jack, you are quite sure that your eyes are all right?”
she went on anxiously
”Yes, Ruth The doctor says that I'll be as well as ever in a day or two You are the only one to be worried over I'll tell Martha to telephone to me to-morrow just as soon as the doctor has seen you” And so it was arranged
Randy had obtained a large taxicab and into this all the girls crowded, taking care, however, to make Ruth as coirls of Clearwater Hall started for the school
”I'll bet Miss Garill be surprised when she sees Ruth,” was Andy's co away Miss Garas the head of the girls' school
”Poor Ruth,”this has been!”
Fortunately for the cadets, they found the Colby Hall stage in town, and all piled in and were speedily taken to the school Here Jack and Randy went up to their rooms, while the others reported to Colonel Colby
”Threw pepper into Jack's eyes, did he!” said the colonel wrathfully
”What a dastardly thing to do! I aer a pupil at the school If he were I should feel it my duty to hand him over to the authorities You say he did not come back to Haven Point?”
”No, sir,” answered Gif ”They motored over to the other side--over to where the Hasley ammunition factory used to be located”
”I see Then probably both he and Glutts will take good care not to show themselves in the vicinity of Haven Point,” said Colonel Colby
And in this sur afterwards it was learned that Werner had put theit back to the party of whom it had been hired, and then he and Glutts had tramped three miles across the country to a railroad station where they took a train for parts unknown
The colonel came up to see Jack and have a look at his injured eyes, and then sent Mrs Crews up to the young captain to bathe his eyes with the lotion the doctor had given him and bind them up
”It's too bad! too bad entirely!” said Mrs Creas quite a motherly woman ”I hope your eyes are as well as ever in a day or two”
And then she added with a twinkle in her own optics: ”I suppose that is what you get for running off with that baby carriage”
”If it is, it's a terrible price to pay, Mrs Crews,” answered Jack, and then told her about Ruth
”Now that's too bad entirely,” said thelady like Miss Stevenson? It's awful hoicked so men are,” and she shook her head dolefully
Jack took it easy for the rest of the day, and one after another his chums came in to sympathize with him
”I can't understand a fellow like Werner,” remarked Ned Lowe ”If he isn't careful he'll land in prison”
”What getsafter hier ”Sooner or later Werner is bound to lead Glutts into soht, not only because his eyes hurt hiet Ruth out of his irl's eyes should be perht of such a catastrophe horrified him