ll too hot to hold you! You'll live in Coventry all the while you're
here. You won't get a decent----"

"Oh, get out of my way, Fairfield, or I'll run you down!" snapped Sam,
as he threw in the gear and released the clutch, and, had our hero not
leaped back, he would have been struck by the heavy touring car.

"Well, of all the gigantic, unmitigated nerve!" gasped Jack, as he
stared at the swiftly moving car. "That is the limit!"

CHAPTER III

THE ADVICE OF BRUCE

The silence amid the group of Tom's friends, punctuated at first by the
exhaust from the car, was finally broken by Bert Wilson, who asked:

"Well, Tom, what do you think of that?"

"I don't know what to think," was the answer, given slowly. "It gets
me!"

"And it does all of us," added Jack. "In the first place, I never
thought Sam and Nick would have the nerve to come back, but since they
had, I surely thought they'd cave in when they saw we meant business."

"So did I," agreed Bert. "But since they haven't, what's to be done?"

"There's only one thing," decided Jack. "We've got to expose 'em,
that's what!"

"Sure!" cried George Abbot, getting a bit excited. "Let the whole
school know what they did to you, and I guess that will end things for
them at Elmwood Hall."

"It seems to be the only way," agreed Tom. "Of course I'm out of it,
in a way, for they didn't keep me locked up In the old mill, with
nothing but bread and water. But they did Bert and Jack, and that's
the same thing. And there's Dick to be thought of. Of course he isn't
an Elmwood lad, though he may be soon, for he wants to come here. But
I feel that I ought to take his part."

"Sure!" chorused Jack and Bert, while the former added grimly: "We're
on the job, and can look after ourselves. You can represent Dick, Tom,
and we'll form a combination."

"To run them out of this school!" exclaimed Bert with energy.

"That being the case," went on Tom, "we'll have to consider the ways
and means of doing it. Of course Nick, being a Junior, isn't in the
same class with Sam. If it had been two Juniors who acted the way
those fellow did I don't know that we would have such a kick coming,
but when a member of your own class turns against you it's time to do
something!"

"Hurray!" cried George. "What are you going to do, fellows? Will you
let me in on it? Will you haze 'em? Say, you'll let me have part in
it; won't you?"

"Hold on, George!" begged Tom with a s