“Yes.”
“Why?”
“I wished to tell you something.”
“About——”
“Elsie—she is here.”
“I know it.”
“You have seen her?”
“Yes.”
Then, without shielding himself in the least, Bart told Frank how he had seen him helping Elsie onto the car, and how he had fancied all sorts of bad things about him. Hodge’s face was flushed with shame as he proceeded. Several times Merriwell tried to check him, seeing that this confession was causing him great humiliation and distress, but the penitent fellow would not desist until he had finished.