“So did the whole college, I guess. Now Kerr and I feel that not only have we been insulted, but that the whole freshman class has.”
“I agree to that.”
“And will you help us to get even?”
“Sure. What you going to do?”
“You’ll see later. What I need now is a coil of wire. I want to know if you’ll get it for me.”
“Certainly, but why can’t you get it for yourself?”
“Well, to tell you the truth, I’ve got about all the marks I can stand this term, and merely because I happened to play an innocent trick in class to-day I’m forbidden to leave the college grounds for a week. Just when I want to go to town, too. So I’ve got to get some one else to get the wire for me, and I thought you would. I’ll pay for it, of course.”
“Sure I’ll get it,” agreed Tom, not stopping to think that Kerr, the special chum of Langridge, might have acted for his friend. “What kind do you want?”
“I’ll tell you. Here’s the money,” and Langridge handed over a bill, also giving Tom a memorandum of the kind of wire wanted and where to get it in Haddonfield.