"If the game works, you can pretend to be in love with the same girl. You can challenge Thornton to mortal combat. He won't dare meet you. Then you can expose him, and if that will not be getting even with him I don't know how you can get even."
This scheme did not exactly meet Diamond's approval, and Frank found it difficult to induce him to agree to it. At last, however, Merriwell succeeded.
"We'll have barrels of fun out of this," laughed Frank. "I feel in need of a little fun to wake me up."
CHAPTER XV.
THORNTON'S "MASH."
Tom Thornton was alone in his room when there came a knock on the door.
"Come in," called Tom, without turning his head or taking his feet down from the table on which they were resting.