“By Hattie Hazle and Mabel Mischief.”
“In what way?”
“Those girls divined Jack Diamond’s secret. They discovered that he was in love.”
“Well?”
“They did not make a success of their attempt.”
“No.”
“What was the result?”
“I don’t know.”
“You heard Mabel Mischief express her sentiments. You heard her say how much she respected Jack. Up to that moment I had thought her frothy and thoughtless. Then I discovered that she did think and reason, and she opened my eyes, for she showed me how much respect a fellow commands who is constant to one girl. I met her first, Hodge, but I know that at this minute she thinks far more of Jack Diamond than she does of me.”
“What of that? There are others. And I didn’t suppose you were pledged to any girl, Merriwell.”