"I can stand more than that!" muttered Frank.
"There's nothing for me to do here," said the doctor. "I should advise him to go to bed and lie still for the rest of the night. If he feels badly in the morning you can send for me."
With this the doctor took himself off. Frank then slowly sat up.
"There are some aches about me," he said, with a wry grimace, "but I suppose the more I talk of them the more black marks I'll get."
"Oh, hang the black marks!" exclaimed Rowe. "There's been initiation enough for you, old fellow, and there isn't a doubt that when the matter is explained to the rest of the 'Pigs,' that you'll be excused from any further test."
"No, siree!" exclaimed Frank, emphatically.
"Eh, what's that?"
"If you think," responded Frank, "that I'm going to do the baby act and crawl out of the rest of the circus you're mistaken."
"But——"
"There's no 'but' about it! I've been through worse things than this and if you fellows don't put the initiation through just as if nothing had happened, I'll be hanged if I'll join the society."