“I was utterly unaware that anything like a demonstration was going to take place till it happened. The men cheered beneath my window, and I spoke a few words to them.”
“Oh, I’m not talking about that!”
“You are not?”
“No, you know I’m not!”
“I thought you were. It seems that I’m still in a fog.”
“I’m talking about this demonstration coming—this indignation meeting to be held on the campus to-night!”
“I know nothing about it.”
Lorrimer showed his incredulity.
“Excuse me, Merriwell,” he said, “it is gotten up for your benefit, but I want to tell you that it will not benefit you in the least. On the contrary, it will hurt you.”
“I trust, sir,” said Frank, with dignity, “that you accept my word when I say that I know absolutely nothing about it!”