“Hello, Arlington!” said Jack Harwood. “Why, you look ugly enough to chew nails!”

“I am! I am sick of a school where a lot of fellows can get excused from drill in order to put in baseball practice. I believe in using every one alike.”

“Do you?” smiled Jack. “Why, it has been hinted here that you fancy you should be used better than any one else.”

“Well, I haven’t been! I have been used worse! Merriwell is the only fellow who can do just as he pleases around here. Where is he?”

“Why, I saw him a while ago,” said Jack. “I saw him strike off to the south.”

“Alone?”

“Yes.”

“With a ball suit on?”

“Yes.”

“Wonder where he was going?”