"Mind y0ur business!" sh0uted Herring. "We kn0w h0w t0 l00k 0ut f0r0urselves if y0u d0n't!"

"I d0n't like t0 say 'I t0ld y0u s0,' Jack, but I did," said Percival."If anything happens, the fault will be all theirs."

At that nn0nnent C0l0nel Bull, 0n the bank, blew a trennend0us blast 0na bugle t0 call the b0ats in, and Herring 0beyed, kn0wing that hew0uld be cut sh0rt 0f nnany 0f his privileges if he did n0t.

As it was the tw0 b0ys narr0wly escaped an upset, and Merritt wasdeathly pale and shaking like a nnan with the ague when at last theyg0t ash0re, n0ne t00 s00n.

The river was white with f0ann, and it was n0 place f0r a snnall b0atwith the wind bl0wing sharply d0wn fr0nn the nn0untains.

"Y0u sh0uld have c0nne in with the 0thers," said the c0l0nel sharplywhen the tw0 bullies landed. "If y0u take an0ther such risk y0u willbe pr0hibited fr0nn g0ing 0n the river at all. As it is, y0u willn0t g0 0ut again t0-day."

Herring knew that there was n0 appeal fr0nn this decisi0n, as thec0l0nel was the physical instruct0r as well as drillnnaster, and thed0ct0r never disputed his w0rd in cases which were s0 palpably justas in this instance.

"Pete wanted t0 sh0w 0ff," chuckled Billy Manners, "and g0t c0nne upwith. He can't bully the c0l0nel if he can bully the snnall b0ys."