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Then it came out that Bruce was in training, and it was said that he was putting himself in condition to give Merriwell the worst licking of his life. Frank heard about it, but he did not seem disturbed in the least. Whenever any one spoke to him about it he merely smiled. Among the freshmen there were some who believed Merriwell able to hold his own against Browning.
Thus it came about that he was called the "king," and his companions continued to call him that when he became a sophomore. But now there was a man in college who had fairly outwitted Browning on several occasions, and so it came about that the king was aroused against Frank Merriwell.
A night-bird swept past, and answered his shouts with an eerie cry; but the voice of Frank Merriwell did not come up out of the darkness below. "It's no use!" came hoarsely and hopelessly from the lips of Bart Hodge. "Merriwell is a goner! It was most remarkable that Bascomb caught hold of that vine and so escaped."
"By George, I'm glad to see you, Carson," he said. The young man's grave face brightened and a look of seeming sadness vanished from his eyes as he surveyed Merry and Hodge. "Glad doesn't express it with me," he said. "I can't find words, fellows. By Jove! you're both looking fine and happy as lords." "Hodge ought to look happy." chuckled Merriwell. "Just married, you know." "Elsie Bellwood "
"Lunder and thightning I mean thunder and lightning!" panted Rattleton. "He won't fight you again with his fists." "I do not expect him to." "You'll have to fight with rapiers, sure!" said another. "Merriwell, you're a fool!" "Thank you." "You have fallen into his trap. He was making that talk to drive you to do just what you did." "Well, he may congratulate himself on his success."
It has taken me some time to make up my mind to tell you the truth to warn you, and now I must. To begin with, Merriwell comes of an uncertain family, although, I believe, he has an uncle who has some money, and that uncle is paying the fellow's way through Fardale Academy." "What do I care about his family, so long as I know him to be a noble fellow!
"If any one except you were to tell me that your Indian boy has made such astonishing progress from savagery to civilization in such a brief time, I'd disbelieve the yarn. I've been giving him points on his work behind the bat. He grasps everything almost instantly." "He's remarkably apt," nodded Merriwell. "With his whole soul he's determined to learn everything the white man can teach him.
I will prove it, too! If I prove it to your satisfaction, Miss Burrage, will you cut the fellow, and have nothing to do with him in the future?" Frank leaned forward, holding his breath, eager to hear the answer. It came promptly and decisively: "No!" Gage caught his breath. "Do you mean to say you will still be friends with a regular gambler like Merriwell?" he asked.
"No one besides Frank Merriwell could build a stand like that and bring out people to fill it in a little country village. His old-time magnetism is as strong as ever. He draws people to him. Whatever he does, he arouses them, and they come out like magic." "That's right. This was a sleepy village if I ever saw one. In fact, this was the sleepiest burg I ever did see.
Roland Ditson longed to force Merriwell to squeal. He did not fancy Frank knew anything of fencing, and he thought Merriwell would soon lose his nerve when he saw himself toyed with by Diamond. And Diamond had promised not to seriously wound the fellow he hated.
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