It was assuredly a grand victory, and that evening the whole school celebrated, with bonfires, singing, and dancing. Dave was called on for a speech. Plum took part in the celebration, for he was not seriously injured.
"And now for the holidays and home!" said Dave, on the following Monday morning. "Just two weeks more of the grind, boys!"
"They'll soon slip by," said Phil.
"Dave, do you imagine that Merwell and Jasniff will return to Rockville?" continued the shipowner's son.
"I don't know—perhaps, after a while—when they think I will drop the charge against them."
"Perhaps they are too scared to come back," said Phil.
"They are bad eggs," murmured Dave. But how bad, he was still to learn. He was to meet Merwell and Jasniff again, and what that pair did to injure him and those he so dearly loved will be told in another volume of this series, to be entitled: "Dave Porter on Cave Island; or, A Schoolboy's Mysterious Mission." In that book we shall meet Dave and many others of our characters again, and learn the particulars of a happening at Crumville that was as dismaying as it was perplexing.
"Well, let us forget Merwell and Jasniff," said
