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They were supposed to keep bowing to the seniors, juniors and sophomores, but that custom had long been a dead letter at Yale. The freshmen had become too independent for such a thing. However, they stood and saw the upper classmen go past, and it seemed to poor Harry that every fellow stared at him and grinned.
Why, I'm told that if the freshmen don't give up the dinner plan I'm to be kidnaped." "How'd you hear " began Cowan. Then he paused with some confusion. "Who told you that rot?" he asked with a laugh. "Oh, it came in a roundabout way," answered Livingston. "I dare say it's just talk." "Some freshman nonsense," said Cowan.
Each, however, pledged herself to make a point of getting acquainted with the freshmen in the house where she resided and sounding them on their policies, with a view toward giving them a hint in the right direction. It seemed to Marjorie that the next few days following her strenuous service on committee were days of undiluted peace.
A tall slender girl, with serious brown eyes and dark hair, who was leisurely crossing the station platform, stopped short, glanced in the direction of the sound, then espying Mabel hurried toward her. "Good old Frances," beamed Mabel. "You heard me calling and came on the run, didn't you? This is the noblest junior of them all, my dear freshmen. Her name is Frances Veronica Marlton.
Turning about, Hester tossed the ball to Louise who made a goal from the foul of the freshmen team. The ball went back to center and the game again was on. At the end of the first half, the score stood six to eight in favor of the sophomores. Berenice came up to Hester while she was struggling into her sweater. "You see how it is," she whispered.
Poor sophs! Why don't they get out and walk? They could get along faster." That seemed to break the sophs up, and then a great shout went up as the freshman boat forged into the lead. They soon led the sophs by a length, and crossed the line thirty feet in advance. Then Rattleton keeled over, completely done up, but supremely happy. How the freshmen spectators did cheer! "'Umpty-eight!
Marjorie and Ronny happened to be the last of the little procession. The former bore in mind her chief object in coming-to the station and kept a sharp lookout for freshmen.
They sang the songs that were to be interspersed as illustrations in Bea's class history. There was the elegant stanza which they had shouted all the way to the mountain lake that first October at college. "'Rah, 'rah, 'rah! kerchoo, kerchoo! We are freshmen Who are you?"
It was an event that was bound to go down in history as the most audacious and daring piece of work ever successfully carried through by freshmen in that college. And Frank Merriwell was to receive the credit of being the originator of the scheme and the general who carried it out successfully.
Miss Merton had arranged the freshmen to her satisfaction. Now she was calling for the sophomores to rise. Perhaps she would not notice Mary. If she did not, then Mary could pass with the sophomores to their section. As soon as the session was dismissed, she would introduce her to Miss Merton. But Miss Merton was lynx-eyed. "That girl there in the blue dress," she blared forth.
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