"I hope this is quiet enough for you," said Murray.
"I had an especial reason for bringing you here!" responded Bull. "All I've got to tell you about happened here. Do you know, old man, I jumped into the river off that high bank last night."
"What!" gasped the other. "For Heaven's sake, why?"
"That's in the story," answered Harris. "I'll begin at the beginning. Listen. You remember how I told you a a while ago when that plebe Mallory first came here, how Mary Adams and I had a quarrel and that fool came along and knocked me down."
"You never told me what you were doing," said Murray.
"Never mind. I was a fool to try it, that way. Anyhow, she's hated me ever since. And oh, how she has struggled to get that plebe. Murray, I'm smarter than you think. I've been watching this business night and day, waiting for my chance. And now it's come. I found that plebe and Mary on this very spot just before taps last night."
"What doing?" gasped Murray.
Bull told the particulars.
"And, by George, I'll be hanged if she didn't end it by flinging herself head first over that bank!" he concluded.
"What!" gasped Murray.