“He’ll appear, though. You failed to keep your promise to him, and so——”
“What promise?”
“Your promise to give up his I O U’s, won from him at the poker-table.”
“So that’s his story, eh? Ha, ha! Do you fancy he’ll be fool enough to get up before the committee and tell that he gambled with me? Why, he’d be in trouble at once! Gambling is not allowed here. And he doesn’t want his mother to know that he played for money.”
“You’re right about that, but you have driven him to the limit. The worm has turned. Arlington, I am holding him in check now. But for me he would have gone to Professor Gunn with the whole story.”
“I don’t believe it!”
“Believe it or not, as you like.”
“Why should you hold him in check—you? You are my enemy, and I am yours. You’d not do such a thing for me.”
“No.”
“Then——”