“It’s plain enough, but it’s you who are off your trolley.”
“Oh, I think not.”
“You are, just the same. I am done with Yale. How could I go back there, after skipping out as I did and leaving all those debts? It’s impossible.”
“You know your debts were paid. When Browning returned to college, he squared them all.”
“Without my knowledge, Merriwell. I refused to let you send the money, but you did it without letting me know a thing about it. I was the one to pay the debts I had contracted. You did that.”
“Something I’ll guarantee is known to no person but Browning.”
“What makes you think that?”
“I know it.”
“How?”
“He was bound by a pledge not to say I had anything to do with it, but to give the impression that the money came from you.”