“I’ll never get over the disgrace!”
“Where is Merriwell?” asked Jack. “I believe he let the fellow free.”
“Why should he do that?”
“Just to have fun with me. He’s trying to get square for that time I fooled him by pretending madness.”
“By the looks of you, I should say he’s pretty near even.”
“But now I’ve got a score to settle with Boltwood. I was not prepared for him, else he’d never been able to cuff me round the way he did.”
“Hear those freshmen singing!” muttered Bingham. “Isn’t that enough to make a man’s blood hot?”
“It is, indeed!” confessed Ready. “I’ll never get over this night if I live to be a hundred!”
The freshmen could be seen massing in the distance.