“Come off! Why, last year——”
“You were a freshman, Ready, and you bit a number of well-baited hooks.”
“Oh, did I? He, he! Well, I fancy some other people were bitten on a few occasions. I remember a certain delightful evening when a party took me out to give me a little haze. I believe I was put in with a skeleton, and I went mad while confined there. Oh, say! Merriwell, you were a mark that night!”
Frank colored a little as he laughingly confessed:
“You did fool me, all right, Ready; but you would have fooled anybody, for you played mad to perfection. We all thought we had driven you crazy.”
“I played mad, but there was no play about your madness when you found you were fooled. Oh, ha, ha, ha! It makes me laugh to think what a great time I had!”
“Forget it!” cried Frank, also laughing.
“How can I?”
“Just do. I never tried to get square, have I?”
“Oh, never! That seemed to teach you the folly of trying to monkey with little Jack.”