utiously the two cadets opened the goat stable and led the animals
inside. Then, while Walt lit a couple of matches, Jack managed to place
the goats where they had been before, and also put the harness away.

"I don't think I'll leave that note, or the money either," he said.
"Maybe it will be as well if O'Toole never knows that the goats were
out. I don't think the experience did them any harm. If it did, we can
settle with O'Toole later;" and he pocketed the note he had previously
written, and also the money. Then the two cadets lost no time in
hurrying back to Colby Hall.

In the meantime, what Walt had said about the commotion going on at the
school was true.

"I tell you, sir, it's a perfect outrage!" bawled Asa Lemm at the top of
his lungs. "An outrage, sir, and I demand satisfaction!"

"Please do not become so excited, Professor," responded Colonel Colby.
"We must try to get at the bottom of this matter. You say there is ice
on the floor of your room?"

"Yes, sir; a perfect pond of ice!"

"Did somebody flood your floor and then freeze it?" questioned the
master of the Hall in wonder.

"I don't know how it was done. But it was done, and I nearly broke my
neck the minute I entered the room. It was disgraceful! I never saw
anything to equal it!" and Asa Lemm's face was fairly purple with rage.

"And what about those goats?"

"They were locked up in my closet and dressed up in some clothing--my
clothing, I suppose."

"Then, when they ran out of the building, they must have taken your
clothing with them."

"More than likely. Oh, it's shameful!" and the irate professor shook his
fists in his rage.

"Where are the goats now?"

"I don't know, and I don't care."

"One of those goats knocked me flat," growled Slugger Brown.

"Yes, and he biffed me one, too," came from Nappy Martell.

"Let us go and make an investigation, Professor Lemm," remarked Colonel
Colby. "I will accompany you to your room," for they were now near the
stairway which the goats had descended.

The pair proceeded to the apartment, followed by some of the other
teachers and nearly all of the cadets. By this time much of the ice on
the floor had melted, forming little pools of muddy water.

"We had better have this cleaned up at once," said Colonel Colby, and
turned to one of the teachers. "Order some of the hired help up here,
please;" and the teacher hurried off to execute the errand.

While Colonel Colby was looking at the ice a