"I suppose you consider yourself one?"
"Oh, I can't tell about that. But supposing I am; by the time I become a soph some of the newness will have worn off."
"I am not particularly impressed with any freshman who seems to think so much of sophomores. You ought to stay with them all the time."
"Oh, I don't know. They have treated me rather well, and I have found the most of them easy people."
"They seem to have found some freshman easy fruit. Somebody has been blowing to them about our crew."
"I know it," was Ditson's surprising confession, "and that's why I dropped in here. I wanted to tell Merriwell about it."
Jones gasped for breath. He was too surprised to speak for some minutes.
Ditson took out a package of cigarettes, offering them first to Harry, who shook his head.
"What?" cried Roll, amazed. "You won't smoke?"
"No."