“There are a few things you do not know, old chum,” said Merry, forcing a smile, which was not quite free from regret and pain.
They had turned about.
“But Elsie Bellwood is in love with you, Merriwell,” Diamond insisted. “I know it, old man.”
“You think you do; but you have been abroad for some time, and things have happened while you were away.”
Jack was astonished.
“Why,” he breathed wonderingly, “you don’t mean to say—to say———— What do you mean, anyhow?”
“That it’s all off between Elsie and your humble servant.”
“Impossible!”
“True, just the same.”
“I can’t believe it now. You are joking, Frank!”