“If I do——”
“Don’t be too hasty. What do you expect to do with them?”
“I won them. He owes me almost fifty dollars.”
“Which he cannot pay.”
“That’s not my fault. He’ll have to pay, or——”
“You wish revenge against Savage. It won’t work. I am satisfied that you won from him crookedly.”
“He thinks he’s pretty slick with cards,” said Chester; “but he got bitten, that’s all.”
Dick knew Joe Savage had not been above winning money in questionable ways at one time, but Savage had reformed, and he seemed sincere, so that Merriwell was satisfied that he had been led into gambling again, not that he had chosen it of his own inclination.
Arlington’s words were a practical confession that he had “skinned” Savage, and Dick had no further hesitation about carrying out his original plan.
“You agreed to give up those I O U’s if Savage would withdraw as a candidate for the athletic committee and ask that all votes cast for him be thrown for you on the next balloting.”