“How did you know?”
“Well, if I’m not mistaken, she has a little pride of her own. She could not do that without humbling her own pride.”
“Still, Chester, she was just angry enough to do it. And it was I who stopped her. If it hadn’t been for me you never would have known of those things you told her. You know you fibbed when you said it was the gossip of the school.”
He laughed easily.
“There is such a thing as lying in a good cause,” he said. “Merriwell doesn’t care a snap for her, and any one can see that. Look at him now. There he is in the corner, talking to my sister.”
“At least,” said Zona, watching her companion slyly, “you have done a good thing for Hal Darrell.”
Instantly a cloud came to Arlington’s face.
“I am not spending any time doing that fellow good turns!” he muttered.
“But see how Doris is taking up with him to-night.”
“I see!”