"It's a hard pill to swallow, boys," Bart announced, as he was voted
into the position of presiding officer, "but we'll pay 'em back some
day. It has taught us a lesson. I didn't believe that crowd had such a
strong organization. We'll have to form a society ourselves and get even
with 'em."
"That's what we will!" declared Fenn.
In the meanwhile Ned was being borne away by his captors. At the first
sign of the attack he had guessed the object of it. He had fought
valiantly against being taken, but was overpowered by the weight of
numbers. He had given an involuntary call for help when first seized,
but, after that, he resolved to fight alone as best he could. That was
why he did not cry out when he felt the boys lift him to their shoulders,
after binding his arms and legs, and carry him away.
Ned hoped his friends would rescue him, not so much that he minded being
captured, as it was all in fun, but that he did not like the first year
boys to play such a trick on the older pupils. He had an expectation,
when Bart sang out for aid to effect his recapture, that he would be
taken from the hands of the enemy, but when he felt himself being carried
further and further away, he knew the Upside Down boys had triumphed.
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