"I can tell you frankly that for my own part, during the worst parts of the initiation, I felt always that you were friends of mine and that I was perfectly safe to trust myself in your hands no matter what extravagant things you seemed to be doing.
"I think that if Miller should be put through some such proceeding it would—well, it would likely tear what little nerve he has into tatters."
Frank hesitated a moment and then sat down. The room was perfectly still while the members of the order looked at one another doubtfully.
"I don't quite see," remarked Baker, presently, "how the society of Pi Gamma can put a man who is not a student through an initiation."
"Oh, I didn't mean to suggest that," responded Frank, hastily, but without rising. "I was only thinking that the society has such means for terrifying a man that it ought to be easy for us to devise a plan for giving Miller a good scare."
"Yes, that's the scheme!" exclaimed Rowe, earnestly. "I wouldn't favor putting him through anything like the farce with which we treat neophytes, but it does seem to me that we might give him a dose in earnest somehow."
Other members gave their assent to this suggestion and then somebody asked:
"But what can you do about it if you can't find Miller?"
"That's a damper!" responded Rowe, gloomily. "I understand that he's skipped."
"He's come back," said another senior.