“We can’t afford to wait,” said Halliday. “Time is precious. We must get him out.”
“How?”
“Go up in a body and capture him.”
“There are seven of us,” said Browning. “We ought to be able to do that.”
“What do you say, Merriwell?”
“Well, we might do it, and we might get into the hottest nest we ever struck. You all ought to know what a freshman boarding-house is when it is aroused.”
“It’s a nest,” nodded Hodge.
“A wasp’s nest,” agreed Griswold. “Some of us would get stung.”
“Another thing,” said Frank, “we can’t afford to let it be generally known that we took a hand in the hazing of a freshman. That kind of business is left for the sophs.”
“And the sophs left us to bring the man.”