CHAPTER XIX.
THE LEAP INTO THE RIVER.
"That's the right kind of talk anyway!" said Rowe, "and it's just what we might have expected from you, but really, Merriwell, this was the last thing on the programme for to-night, and even if that scoundrel hadn't pushed you in front of the car we should have made you go to bed at this time."
"Well, I'm bound to obey you in any case," said Frank, "but speaking of that, am I at liberty to talk?"
"Of course, for you're in the presence of members of the Pi Gamma in good standing."
Rowe grinned when he said this, for he thought of the black-mark nonsense and realized that Frank took it in earnest. He added:
"Out of consideration for this accident, Merriwell, I shall ask the president to score off the black marks already entered against you and let you begin with a clean record."
"Well, I can't object to that," said Frank, "for I must say it struck me that some of those marks were chucked on rather harshly."
"You'd better not make any criticisms of the way this society is run," declared Rowe, sternly.