“Why, didn’t we pick him up on the road, and hadn’t he been working on a railroad! Such a famous Yale man wouldn’t be shoveling coal on a railroad.”
“I don’t know. I’ve heard he lost his fortune and was forced to leave college and go to work.”
“I don’t take any stock in such a fairy story, and you are a fool to believe it. He’s just a common upstart, and I am going to take the starch out of him.”
“Well, I’ve warned you. I am your friend, Dug; but I’m not monkeying with Merriwell any more. You’ve had bad luck at it. Havener is sore on you, and——”
“I’m sore on him.”
“He’s the stage-manager, and he stands in with Haley. He can get you fired if he wants to do so.”
“They can’t get along without me.”
“That’s where you make a mistake. They’d find a way to get along without you.”
Dunton looked thoroughly disgusted.
“I see you have gone back on me, even though you say not,” he said, dejectedly. “I didn’t think it of you, Art!”