Frederick chuckled when she had finished.
"That's capital. You tell Dan Jordan, then, to-morrow what you have told me. You see the banquet takes place to-morrow night."
"Yep, I tells him, so I will. I goes to town early to-morry and up to your house.... Come and eat now!"
CHAPTER XXIV
The next morning at eight o'clock Tessibel walked eastward up the long hill toward the college. The "Cranium" fellows were yet asleep. The whole house was tired out from looking for their captured president. The underclassmen did not know that Graves had escaped, Frederick's enemies keeping them in ignorance as long as possible.
Tessibel turned into the carriage drive toward the fraternity with a fish-basket upon her arm.
A man cleaning snow from the flight of steps addressed her.
"What do you want here?"