“And he’ll succeed if you don’t appear and answer to the charges preferred against you,” said Manton. “I was kicked out, even when I did try to defend myself.”
“Say,” broke forth Necker, “did you pay that bunch of sluggers?”
“What bunch?”
“The ones you engaged to help us hammer Merriwell and Hodge.”
“Pay them? Why should I? They didn’t do anything, did they?”
“No; but you agreed to give them something, anyhow.”
“Well, they’ve got all they will get.”
“One of them got something,” said Frost. “Hug Murphy was given a year for flat robbery.”
“Next to Pink Cassidy,” said Manton, “he was the ugliest man in the bunch. Pink was the leader.”