"It'll be a corker on Merriwell if he is not allowed to row, by Jawve!"
"Yes; it will give me no end of satisfaction. That fellow put up the 'Grace Darling' job on me, and Diamond helped him to carry it out. I have been a guy for the whole college ever since Danny Griswold told down at Morey's how he fooled me. Some day I'll wring that little rat's neck!"
"They never could have worked the game if Horner hadn't helped them."
"Of course not; but I have cut clear of Horner. We have separated, and I never give the fellow a look when we meet. Like the other fools, he is stuck on Merriwell, and he thought he was doing something cunning when he helped them work the horse on me."
"If Merriwell doesn't row you'll have a chance to get back at them. You can say you knew it all the time, old chappie."
"Oh, he won't row to-day, and I'll rub it in when I get the opportunity."
Within the boathouse, at this very moment, Bob Collingwood was saying to Frank Merriwell:
"You cannot row in the race to-day, Merriwell. You are out of condition."