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It was two weeks after the duel, and the five sophomores had gathered in the little back room at Morey's, They looked at each other and were silent, but their silence was very suggestive. "By Jawve!" drawled Paulding, "it is awful! I wasn't in the crowd. If I had been " "You'd been roasted like the rest of us," cut in Parker. "But I'd made it warm faw some of the blooming cads."
Who are his parents? What about them?" "I hear his father was drowned in bed," murmured Tad Horner. "By Jawve!" exclaimed Willis Paulding. "How could that happen?" "There was a hole in the mattress, and he fell through into the spring," gravely assured Tad. Willis nearly lost his breath. "That's all wrong," said Browning. "It's true Merriwell is no lubber. Why should he be?
You know it won't stop its racket till somebody stops it or it is run down, and it takes an hour for it to run down after it starts in to ring you up." "By Jawve!" drawled Paulding; "I hawdly think I'd like to have one of the blooming things in my room." "I don't like to have one in my room, but it is absolutely necessary that I do. Hartwick, my roommate, admires it!" The listeners laughed.
"Let's talk about the races." "Yas, by Jawve!" drawled Willis Paulding, who tried to be "deucedly English" in everything. "Let's talk about the races, deah boys. That's what interests me, don't yer know." Hartwick squirmed. He knew what was coming, and still his disposition was such that he could not resist a "jolly" in case the jolliers expressed opinions that did not agree with his own.
"By Jawve! I am rather inclined to believe the English oar is superior, don't yer know," put in Willis Paulding. "That's not surprising in your case," said Emery. "That's not all Merriwell has done," declared Hartwick. "What else has he done?" "He has introduced the Oxford style of catch, finish and length of strokes, which means a longer swing, with more leg and body work."
"Here's more to-morrow," was his toast, and he seemed to toss it off at a single swallow. "By Jawve!" drawled Paulding. "You must be thirsty!" "I am. Have been all day, as I said before. It was hard stuff last night, and we went the rounds. My head needed hooping when I arose from my downy couch this morning." "Well, you shouldn't have gotten intoxicated, in the first place," said Parker.
"Not if the men are worked right and put in proper form," declared Hartwick. "I have been told that the English long stroke and recovery is very graceful and easy, and that it does not wear on a man like the American stroke." "By Jawve! I think that's right, don't yer know," said Paulding. "What you think doesn't count," muttered Tad Horner.
You sit there just saying "Thanks," and "Bai Jawve, thanks awf'lly," while a girl's telling you nice things about your eyes and hair, and you don't do a thing! Rutherford threw back his head and roared with laughter. 'I'm sorry! he said. 'Slowness is our national failing, you know. 'I believe you. 'Tell me about yourself. You know all about me, by now.
The sophomores were filled with rage and chagrin. "That was the blamedest trick I ever heard of in all my life!" declared Andy Emery. "We weren't looking for anything of the kind." "And we have Merriwell to thank for it!" snapped Evan Hartwick. "He's full of tricks as an egg is full of meat." "By Jawve!" said Willis Paulding, who had managed to keep out of harm's way during the entire affair.
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