“Merriwell may be fooled in the fellow, you know.”
“Not likely.”
“Why not?”
“They have been friends a long time. I believe they were schoolmates together. That is why Merriwell sticks by Hodge as he does. He’s a chap who will never turn his back on old friends, no matter what they may do.”
Vance grinned.
“I’ll bet the time will come when Frank Merriwell will turn his back on Bart Hodge,” he declared.
“I do not understand what reason you have for thinking that.”
“I suppose not.”
“Explain.”
“I can’t. It’s a sort of feeling I have, that’s all.”