“Fine! I’m for it!” added Herman.
“Same here!” said Poke. “I’m no prodigy in Cicero, but I’m good and willing.”
There was evident revival of spirit in the clan.
“I’ll try to class with Poke,” Tom Orkney contributed gravely, but hopefully.
But the Shark was shaking his head dubiously. “Let’s get this thing straight. We can tutor the Trojan—that is, you chaps can—I don’t go much on this language foolishness myself. But if you do, will he be allowed to take the final?”
“Why shouldn’t they let him?” Step asked hotly.
“I’m after facts, not reasons one way or the other. What’s the fact?”
“But they’ll just have to!”
“What’s the fact?” the Shark repeated inexorably.
“I don’t know,” Sam confessed, as the others glanced at him inquiringly.