“If that’s the way you look at it,” nodded Frank.
“You’ll get all that’s coming,” muttered Hodge.
“I know where we can pull it off,” laughed Fillmore quickly. “There’s a private gymnasium near the Diamond on Howard Street. That will be a fine chance.”
“Well, well!” cried Spaulding; “it seems that we’re going to have an entertainment not down on the bills.”
“’Rah, ’rah!” cheered Harrow. “This is the kind of stuff to suit me!”
The Yale men were enthusiastic, and to a man they expressed their confidence in Merry.
“Do your best with him, old man,” urged Spaulding.
“Without doubt I’ll have to,” nodded Frank.
Merry knew he was going against “the real thing.” He was not one of the scoffers at jujutsu, although he held that the Japanese art alone was not enough to make a man complete master of other men.