"
"There she goes!" cried Tom a few seconds later, and in a moment more
the door was opened and Tubbs stood in the hallway with the Rover boys.
Tubbs was about to say something, when Sam suddenly caught him by the
arm.
"Hush!" he whispered. "Somebody is coming! I hope it isn't old
Grinder!"
CHAPTER IV.
DORMITORY NUMBER TWO.
For the moment none of the three students knew what to do. They felt
that if the approaching personage should be Jasper Grinder there would
certainly be "a warm time of it," to say the least.
Yet the approaching man was not the teacher, but Peleg Snuggers, the man
of all work around the Hall, a good-natured individual, well liked by
nearly all the students. Snuggers was in the habit of taking many a joke
from the scholars, yet he rarely retaliated, contenting himself with the
saying that "boys will be boys."
"It's Snuggers!" whispered Sam, after a painful pause. "What shall we
do?"
"Perhaps we can get him to keep quiet," returned Tom, also in a low
voice. "He's a pretty good sort.
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