: The Y. M. C. A. boys of Cliffwood; by Henderley Brooks - YMCA of the USA Juvenile fiction

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hantly announced his grand scheme for frightening Old Deacon Nocker the other boys were still. Apparently, every one was digesting the idea, and coming to some sort of a mental decision. Dan Fenwick was the first to voice his views.

"It strikes me as a cracking good prank, Nat!" he exclaimed, "and I'm voting to help you carry the same out."

"Count me in for one of your old sheets, Nat!" cried Peg, enthusiastically.

"Dick, what do you say?" asked Leslie Capes, a little anxiously, as though he rather hoped the other would veto the whole business by declaring it was too silly, or too full of danger.

If this was Leslie's expectation, he was doomed to disappointment, for Dick immediately came out with a full endorsement of Nat's proposal.

"I go you, Nat," he said, presently; "the scheme is worth trying out. Of course, if any fellow chooses to stand back and miss the fun, he's at liberty to do it; but I'll borrow one of your old sheets; and I'll do my level best to throw my voice so as to make it sound like it came up from the grave."

"Then we're all in on the game, if you say so, Dick," declared Andy Hale.

"Ditto here!" echoed Elmer, feeling that the die was now cast; and no one had ever called him a quitter.

"How about you, Leslie?" asked Nat, sneeringly, for he had noticed that the other seemed uneasy when the great scheme was first broached.

"Who, me?" replied the Capes boy, scornfully. "Did any one ever know me to back down when my chums were in for a lark? I speak for another of the sheets, Nat."

"There, the clock struck the half hour," interrupted Dick, "and if we want to be on deck at exactly midnight, we'd better get a hustle on."

"Come along fellows, we'll chase out along the road here to the Brandon place, and climb the fence there. Say, I prowled around today and got my bearings all right."

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