“Mr. Dunton kept his word to me,” said Frank. “I am sure it was my place to keep mine to him.”
“And you engaged him for your own company!”
“Yes; he was too good a man to let slip. I had a place for him, and he has filled it.”
“And I think,” said Douglas Dunton, seriously, “that my association with Frank Merriwell has improved me in various ways. Anyone who takes him for a model is bound to improve.”
“That’s right, b’gosh!” nodded Gallup.
Hodge came rushing into Merriwell’s room almost as soon as Frank arrived. He waved two papers over his head in a triumphant way, crying:
“Great stuff, Frank—great stuff!”
Merry was astounded, for such a demonstration on the part of Hodge was almost unprecedented.
“What is it?” asked Frank.
“The dramatic papers from the East.”