“Find out!” roared Higgins. “You bet! He’ll get all that’s coming to him for this!”
“Explain yourself, Mr. Merriwell,” urged one of the players. “This is a very grave charge. If you cannot substantiate it——”
“I can, sir.”
“Do so at once.”
“These cards are marked.”
“It’s a lie!” raged Darleton.
“You must prove that the cards are marked, Mr. Merriwell,” said another player. “They were but lately unsealed, and it seems impossible.”
“They have been marked since they were opened.”
“How?”
“With the aid of luminous marking fluid of some sort, carried in this man’s pocket. I have watched him marking them.”