“I suppose that is true, but they’re intoxicated, and I can’t leave them this way.”
In vain he tried to reason with Fillmore and Hackett. They took to the nearest walk, arm in arm, and reeled away. Merry drove along as near them as possible, hoping they would change their minds and decide to get back into the carriage.
“Show that you can take a joke as well as anybody, fellows,” he urged. “Come, get in here again.”
He was invited to go to a most disagreeable place, and the Hopkins men kept on until they came out of the park and boarded a street car.
Then, of course, Merry had to give up.
Befogged by drink, Fillmore went straight to his sister’s home, taking Hackett with him. On entering they encountered Inza and Elsie, and thus, through their own folly, exposed themselves to the girls in much the same condition in which they had intended to expose Frank and Bart.
CHAPTER XXVI.
BEFORE THE GAME.
The game of lacrosse between Hopkins and Merriwell’s team was arranged, no objection being raised to it by the committee of athletics at the college.