“Oh! you’re friends, are you?” was the sneering retort. “I suppose you are such friends that you are always open and aboveboard with each other. You wouldn’t deceive each other for the world, would you? You don’t have an idea that Merriwell would fool you?”
“He is not that kind.”
“Oh! isn’t he? That shows how little you know him.”
“I am sick of this business, Arlington,” declared Darrell. “No fellow in this school has done as much for you as Merriwell. Yet you continue to backbite him. What sort of a cock-and-bull story have you faked up now?”
“Oh! I am not going to tell you any story, but if you want to see something with your own eyes that will wake you up, just follow me and get a move on.”
“I can’t waste time in chasing you about.”
“Well, you’d better—you’d better!” nodded Chet. “I will show you something that will make you sizzle.”
“What will you show me?”
“Come and see. I will prove to you by the evidence of your own eyes that Dick Merriwell is a double-faced sneak. If I don’t prove it——”
“If you don’t prove it,” said Hal grimly, “I will make you wish you had! Go ahead!”