"How do you know they wouldn't do something worse than haze freshmen?"
"I don't; but until they do they're just play villains, and that doesn't interest me."
"I see," Mr. Perry observed; "you want people to be either very good or very bad."
"No," Cub returned slowly. "I wouldn't put it that way; I don't want anybody to be bad at all; but the fact of the matter is there are lots of good people in the world and a good many bad."
"And to make a good story you think it is necessary to bring good people and bad people together, eh?"
"Well, that's what makes fireworks, isn't it?"
"Oh, ho, I get you now," said Mr. Perry. "You're fond of spectacular things."
"No, I wouldn't put it that way," Cub replied; "but I don't like to see anybody make a bluff at anything and not make good. Now, we've started out with a glorious bluff at some very clever rascality, and it looks as if it's going to prove to be just an ordinary hazing affair."
"It looks to me like a very extraordinary affair, whether it was hazing or not," returned his father.
"And you think we'll find a villain if we investigate it to the end?"