With trembling fingers, Agnew drew pen and paper toward him. And then, at Merriwell's dictation, he wrote a complete confession of the wrong he had done Badger.
"That is all right!" Merry admitted, when he had looked it over.
He arose from the chair, folded the paper, and put it in a pocket.
"Get out of New Haven as quick as you can. I shall give this to the faculty in the morning. Good-by!"
He unlocked the door, with his face turned toward Agnew, let himself into the hall, and was gone.
Forbearance and mercy had ceased to be a virtue, and Frank Merriwell's hand was lifted to strike and crush a dastardly foe.
CHAPTER XIII.
COWARDICE OF THE CHICKERING SET.
Merriwell encountered Hodge in the campus, informed him of what he had done, and together they started down-town. By and by they took a street-car, and, getting out at a familiar corner, found themselves in front of a group of Merriwell's friends.