"Joke? Why, we thought you were going to tell us what happened in the other world."
"I'm not going to tell anything until I understand this!" he retorted. "Hello, there's Miller."
During this Miller had been half lying in a chair where the students had dropped him at sight of Frank. He was staring in speechless astonishment at the figure in the doorway.
The probability is that he was still so frightened that he believed that Frank had not really come back to life, but that it was his ghost that was speaking.
"What's Miller doing in the Pi Gamma rooms!" exclaimed Frank, starting toward him. "He's the fellow that pushed me under the car! Did you bring him up here for me to give him a thrashing?"
This was said in such a perfectly natural tone, and Frank appeared to be so much in earnest, that Miller was restored to a good deal of his ordinary condition.
He jumped up from the chair, and tried to make for the door; of course, he was caught before he could get out.
Then while he was held there, Baker pretended to explain to Frank that death had taken place and that Humperdink had restored him by some secret scientific process.
"We had Miller here," he concluded, "so that we might punish him for causing your death."
Frank listened very gravely.