“He didn’t fool me.”
Still Frank refused to be convinced.
“There is little danger that I’ll be put in captain of the nine,” he said.
“There is every danger of it. You are the very man who will be offered the place.”
“But the committee will not accept my terms.”
“Your terms?”
“That’s what I said.”
“Why, you——”
“I shall have a proposal to make to them.”
Harry did not have such scruples about questioning Frank as troubled Hodge. His curiosity was aroused.