“How do you know they came from Badger?”
“Badger is your enemy.”
“But he has been keeping pretty quiet of late.”
“He’s been waiting. How he’ll rejoice now when he knows you have been thrown over! Oh, say, it makes me so thundering mad that I can’t keep still!”
Bink was rather comical in his rage. It seemed that he must be ludicrous, no matter what he did.
“I feel just like thrashing the ground with Buck Badger!” he declared.
The idea of little Stubbs “thrashing the ground” with the burly Westerner made Frank laugh outright.
“Oh, laugh!” shouted Bink, drawing the attention of the passengers on the car. “I don’t know what you are made of if you will laugh now!”
“Well, I’m not going to cry. I have done my duty for Old Eli, and my conscience is clear.”
They left the car on arriving at the college. A group of students hailed Frank as he appeared on the campus. It was cold weather, and the college men were warmly dressed, so they did not mind gathering in the open air to “talk it over.” In the group Frank saw the same men who had boarded the car ahead of him.