hat the
liveryman should call at the school early Saturday afternoon for the
four boys and some of their chums, bringing with him a large box-sled
drawn by four horses. Then the boys were to get the girls, and all were
to take a ride until the supper hour. It was arranged that the four
Rovers should go on the ride, and also Spouter Powell, Gif Garrison,
Fatty Hendry, and some others.

"Of course, Fatty, we really ought to make you pay double price,"
remarked Andy to the fat boy, when the arrangements were being made.

"Nothing doing," grunted Fatty. "I don't weigh a bit more than Spouter
or Gif."

"Oh, no, not at all--only about sixty pounds more!" remarked Gif.

Some of the girls attending Clearwater Hall had stated that they wished
to do a little shopping in Haven Point before going on the ride, and so
all had promised to meet the boys in front of the moving picture
theater, which was a resort well-known to all of them.

"Now if the weather only remains good, we ought to have a peach of a
time," announced Randy, after all the arrangements had been settled.

The weather remained good, and promptly on time the liveryman drove up
to the entrance of the Hall with his big box-sled, which he had filled
with straw and robes. Into the sled piled the boys, Fatty Hendry
perching himself up on the front seat beside the driver.

Some of the lads had provided themselves with tin horns, and they set
off on the trip with a grand flourish, a number of the cadets left
behind gazing after them wistfully. But these lads were not utterly
disconsolate, for the reason that skating and coasting were now both
very good around the school.

The horses pulling the box-sled were fine animals, and in a short space
of time they jangled merrily into Haven Point, the boys blowing their
horns loudly to attract attention.

In the meantime, Ruth Stevenson and May Powell, accompanied by Alice
Strobell, Annie Larkins, and some of their chums from Clearwater Hall,
had arrived in the town and gone to several of the stores on various
errands. Then, a few minutes before the time appointed for meeting the
cadets, they hurried over in the direction of the moving picture
theater.

Several of the girls went into a drugstore close to the theater, leaving
Ruth and May standing on the sidewalk, looking at the various gaudy
billboards which were displayed there. The girls were discussing the
picture of a well-known moving-picture actress, when suddenly R