“I knew there was some trouble between you and Dunton,” said the stage manager, “and I saw that it came out all right, for both of you dropped all hard feelings, or seemed to.”
“But you never knew,” said Dunton, “that I tried to kill Merriwell.”
“Kill him?” gasped Havener.
“Yes.”
“Great gosh!” gurgled Ephraim.
“No,” admitted the stage manager, “I never knew that.”
“Well, it’s a fact,” admitted the actor. “It was in the time when we were playing in repertoire just after the wind up of poor old ‘Uncle Tom.’ You remember that Merriwell was run into the leading part in a hurry, to fill the place of Leslie Lawrence, who was ill.”
“Yes, I remember.”
“And I wanted that part.”
“I remember that.”