."

They went on dressing, with hurried glances at the clock now and then to
make sure they would not be late. From out in the raised court came a
hail:

"Oh, you, Dunk!"

"Stick out your noddle, Blair!"

"Come on down!"

"That's Thad and his crowd," announced Andy.

"Let 'em holler," advised Dunk. "I'm not going with them."

"Oh, you Dunk!"

"Go on away!" called Dunk, shouting out of the window.

"Oh, for the love of mush!"

"Look at him!"

"Girls, all right!"

"Come on up and rough-house 'em!"

These cries greeted the appearance out of the window of the upper part
of Dunk's body, attired in a gaudy waistcoat.

"Is that door locked, Andy?" gasped Dunk, hurriedly pulling in his head.

"Yes."

"Slip the bolt then. They'll make no end of a row if they get in!"

Andy slipped it, and only in time, for there came a rush of bodies
against the portal, and insistent demands from Thad and his crowd to be
admitted. Failing in that they besought Andy and Dunk to come out.

"Nothing doing! We've got dates!" announced Andy, and this was accepted
as final.

They were just about to leave, quiet having been restored, when there
came a knock.

"Who is it?" asked Dunk, suspiciously.

"Gaffington," was the unexpected answer. "Are you fellows coming to my
blow-out."

Dunk looked at Andy and paused. Following the affair in Burke's, where
Gaffington had incited Dunk against Andy, the rich youth from Andy's
town had had little to say to him. He seemed to take it for granted that
his condition that night was enough of an apology without any other, and
treated Andy exactly as though nothing had occurred.

"Well?" asked Gaffington, impatiently.

"Sorry, old man," said Dunk, "but we both have previous engagements."

"Oh, indeed!" sneered Mortimer, and they could hear him muttering to
himself as he walked away.

Then the two chums sallied forth. On the way Dunk reported the loss of
his watch, to the discomfiture of the Dean, who seemed much disturbed by
the successive robberies.

"Something must be done!" he exclaimed, pacing up and down the room.

Dunk also left word at the college maintenance office about the door
that would not lock, and got the promise that it would be seen to.

"And now for the girls!" exclaimed Andy. "Do I know them?"

"No, but you soon will."

Andy was much pleased with the two young ladies to whom Dunk introduced
him later. It appeared that one was a distant relative of Dunk's moth