“Well, after all, why not? Besides, after they’ve been here awhile they develop different—as you’d say—‘er—characteristics.’ What if the kids do look alike when they first come?”
“But you don’t get the—er—the idea at all!” protested Martin. “What I’m trying to get at—”
“Is that Alton Academy attracts a certain type of fellow and doesn’t get enough freaks to suit you.”
“Freaks be blowed! I don’t want freaks, I want new blood, something different now and then. You know as well as I do that new blood is what—”
“You’ve got the ‘melting pot’ idea, eh?”
“Yes, I guess so. Why not? Look at the other schools; some of ’em, anyway: Dexter, Dover—”
“Croton?”
“I said some of ’em. Take Dexter now.”
“I refuse.”
“Look at the—er—variety of fellows that go there. What’s the result?”