d them bound over his eyes, while his face was bathed with soothing and healing lotions; but nothing could soothe his bruised

ng the Southerner continued t

weariness when he awoke to find his roommat

ed Diamond, thickly. "I'll kill

lung him off. They grappled, and it was a severe strug

gasped Collins, whose hair was standing.

e are

of course. Where di

know. I wa

way often, I'll have to take out a

ll right in the mornin

ed a cigarette to quiet his nerves, after which he got into bed once more. At interval

a physician, although he protested against it. His eyes were in wretched shape, but when t

ar at chapel or recitations

oy came around

ce, and one would have thought never in all his life ha

been fortunate, and he was never detected in anything the faculty could not approve. By those who knew him he was

r in scrapes of all sorts, and he was not inclined to be prying into the affairs of student

ion to his studies, especially in the evening, no one thought of investigating further. The doctor, it was said,

gathered in Merriwell's room, for they were beginning to

n the sill of the open window, with a cigarette cling

re those beautiful eyes of

est gun store," declared Dorman. "Collins says he bought a Winchester rifle, a

"Why didn't he purchase a canno

ughed Ned Stover. "He

tfit than that before he takes

Merry?" asked

moking. "Diamond is not the fellow to give up whipp

," growled

. "He is a Southerner, and he looks at many things differe

ollege," airily declared Dan Dorman. "Now, I came here with the idea of falling

e some individuality. If you do everything everybody wants you

o be always hanging off and

make allowances for Diamond, and I am not

flung a book a

hates you, and he means to do you some time. Still you are so

ank. "All of you fellows mu

og stick-to-it-ivene

n; "now that Diamond has not blowed, he's goi

makes you

raight. Browning ha

wning is king

jealous of

alo

d he must be taken down. I tell you I've got it straight. He'

ssed Frank, showing that he was aroused.

mal Jones. "He's a Le Boule man, and they say he may

's that a

then he's a fighter, and he is au

oo fat t

week. He was the greatest fresh

-back! Oh, say, that fello

him out of college if he didn't stop it. You see, Browning is not entirely to blame for his laziness. He inherits it

king of the sophomores," unless such a title was applied to him in derision. Now he began to

erest in Br

he is backi

ay it looks f

ion. It is he who puts the sophs up to their j

ight! tha

ted machinery of your fertile brain to

ight! tha

take time to t

aps with which the walls were decorated, all of which had been snatched f

Dan Dorman. "They seem to s

attempt to get one in ret

had a goo

you'll never get a scalp. You m

, "this talk about scalp

claimed several of

d. "Wait till I h

ed in, smoking a c

o, fellows! What's

"Merry is perfecting a schem

at so? He's a bad man to monkey w

given him numberless digs; but he was too thick to tumble or he de

efore he knows he's not wa

rank, with mild sarcasm-"thank you

t believe you care to have him on your trail. He is the most influe

ement had settled the question of Browni

nter there. It was an old frame house, with low-posted rooms, and there

ed closet. On the cup was engraved in large letters the word "Velvet," which is a well-known Yale dr

es were engraved on the cup, and no one whose name w

cut in the hard wood. One table had been filled with six hundred and seventy-five names and wa

ghed at Ditso

e on one of those tables," he said. "If you had said that Browning's n

t in the habit of telling us everything.

e me so nervous that I thin

on, swelling with importance. "Always listen to

ell said nothing more of his scheme to get a "horse"