Copyright, 1896 and 1902
By STREET & SMITH
Frank Merriwell's Chums

CONTENTS.

I [Frank Asks Questions]XXV [The Sinister Stranger]
II [A Ghastly Subject]XXVI [The Mystery of the Ring]
III [An Irresistible Temptation]XXVII [Attacked on the Road]
IV [A Game of Bluff]XXVIII [The Marks on the Black Stone]
V [Frank's Revelation]XXIX [Bart Makes a Pledge]
VI [The Plot]XXX [Frank and the Professor]
VII [Spreading the Snare]XXXI [Snell Talks]
VIII [The Haunted Room]XXXII [Snell's Hatred]
IX [In the Meshes]XXXIII [Playing the Shadow]
X [Downward]XXXIV [The Ring Disappears]
XI [Trusting and True]XXXV [More Danger]
XII [The Snare is Broken]XXXVI [The Secret of the Ring]
XIII [The "Centipede" Joke]XXXVII ["Baby"]
XIV [Lively Times]XXXVIII [Sport With a Plebe]
XV [Warned]XXXIX [An Open Insult]
XVI [Paul Rains]XL [For the Under Dog]
XVII [The Bully's Match]XLI [Birds of a Feather]
XVIII [Rains' Challenge]XLII [The Challenge]
XIX [Jumping]XLIII [Doughty Duelist]
XX [Bascomb's Mistake]XLIV [A Comedy Duel]
XXI [The Rival Professors]XLV [Another Kind of a Fight]
XXII [A Lively Call]XLVI [Result of the Contest]
XXIII [Skating for Honors]XLVII [Alive!]
XXIV [Skating for Life]XLVIII [Baby's Heroism—Conclusion]

FRANK MERRIWELL'S CHUMS.

CHAPTER I.

FRANK ASKS QUESTIONS.

September was again at hand, and the cadets at Fardale Military Academy had broken camp, and returned to barracks.

For all of past differences, which had been finally settled between them—for all that they had once been bitter enemies, and were by disposition and development as radically opposite as the positive and negative points of a magnetic needle, Frank Merriwell and Bartley Hodge had chosen to room together.

There was to be no more "herding" in fours, and so Barney Mulloy, the Irish lad, and Hans Dunnerwust, the Dutch boy, were assigned to another room.