“If it is possible, it will be a great pleasure,” smiled Frank.
“Oh, you’ll have to make it possible. But for you I’d never met her, you know. You have brought me all my good fortune, just the same as you bring good fortune to every one of your friends.”
Starbright had resumed his seat. There was a look of bitterness on his handsome, boyish face, but the happy Virginian did not observe it. Frank, however, could read Dick’s thoughts, and he knew the freshman had told himself that the Inza matter could not turn out after the manner of the misunderstanding between Jack and Juliet.
To Merry it seemed that this reconciliation between the Virginian and the English girl had happened at just the right time to serve as an object-lesson. Diamond had been foolishly jealous, had not trusted Juliet, and now he realized the full extent of his folly.
“Boys!” cried Jack, “I’ll blow you to dinner to-night! Why, I want to do something to make others happy, I am so happy myself! Where’ll we go—Del’s?”
Starbright shook his head.
“I can’t go,” he said. “I’m in training, you know, and it won’t do.”
“Training!” cried Diamond. “What, this early? Yes, I remember. But how happens it you are here?”
Dick did not feel like making an explanation just then.
“Business—er—business, you know,” he faltered.