“Just what I say,” came from Pepper. “Jack ought to be major, and Henry one of the captains.”
“Dan Baxter is working hard to become major,” came from a cadet who had just strolled in. “Somebody told me he was actually trying to buy votes!”
“Buy them? Do you mean with money?” queried Jack.
“So somebody told me.”
“Oh, that can’t be true, Jerry. Why, who in this school would be mean enough to sell his vote?”
“Well, Baxter has got a wad of rocks all right enough. I saw the money myself.”
“I’m going to watch him,” came from Pepper, and he motioned for Andy Snow to go along.
“What will you do, if you learn he is really offering money for votes?” questioned Andy, as they hurried away.
“I don’t know yet, Andy. But it would be a mean piece of business. Why, in politics that is bribery, and they can arrest a man for it.”
“I know that—but it’s seldom a briber is caught.”