"You must be."
"You're a fool, Dug! The whole company are fools! What's the use to go on this way? Things are getting worse and worse. No money for two weeks; no prospect of any to come. Wash up, Dug, and we'll jump out of here."
"And leave Merriwell in the lurch?"
"Hang Merriwell!"
"He's not to blame for our hard luck."
"He's not fit to manage a company, and you know it. You have every reason for hating Merriwell; why are you sticking by him? You even tried to kill him once."
"When I was daffy. I was so mad I didn't know what I was doing."
"It would have been a good thing had you done it."
"Well, that beats!" gasped Dunton. "Why, you are the fellow who gave me all kinds of fits because I thought of such a thing! You threatened to quit me cold."
"Because of the danger, and not from any love of Merriwell."