There was silence for a time, and then, with a savage exclamation, Diamond sprang out of his berth and thumped on the partition, crying:
"Come, gentlemen, it's time to go to bed! You are keeping us awake."
There was no response.
Jack went back to bed, but the murmuring continued in the next stateroom, and the rattle of chips could be heard occasionally.
"What are we going to do about it, Merriwell?" asked Jack, savagely.
"We can complain."
But making a complaint was repellent to a college youth, who was inclined to regard as a cheap fellow anybody who would do such a thing, and Diamond did not agree to that.
"Well," said Frank, "I suppose I can go in there and clean them all out."
"How?"
"At their own game," laughed Merry, muffledly.