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"But Ditson the same as suggested outright that Gordon was the traitor who had told the sophs so much." "That is true, but Gordon doesn't know it." "Well, he ought to. What do you think Ditson is doing?" "Oh, he is working Gordon, who has been drinking like a fish since Old Put dropped him." Frank was troubled.
Before night Merriwell received an appealing letter from Ditson, in which the young scapegrace protested his sorrow and entreated Frank to do what he could to keep the matter quiet, so he would not be forced to leave Yale. Ditson declared it would break his mother's heart if he failed to complete his course at Yale.
"I was out stargazing last night. Looked at the Long-Handled Dipper a long time, and it gave me an awful thirst. I've had it with me all day. Yes, mine's ale." So another round was ordered. Horner passed around the cigarettes, and Browning declined them. The others lighted up fresh ones. "Say," broke out Emery, suddenly, "do you know that fresh Ditson gives me that tired feeling?"
That night Ditson might have been seen entering a certain saloon in New Haven, calling one of the barkeepers aside, and holding a brief whispered conversation with him. "Is Professor Kelley in?" asked Roll. "He is, sir," replied the barkeeper. "Do you wish to see him?" "Well ahem! yes, if he is alone." "I think he is alone. I do not think any of his pupils are with him at present, sir."
"He is laughing at you," hurriedly whispered Ditson, lying glibly. "I just heard him tell Rattleton that he could have knocked the stuffing out of you in less than a quarter of a minute. He says you'll never dare face him again." "Oh, he does! oh, he does!" came huskily from Diamond's lips. "Well, we'll see about that we'll see!" With Ditson's aid he got upon his feet.
Frank's face was full of unutterable disgust for Ditson. Other freshmen came crowding into the corner, and Ditson saw himself regarded with scorn and contempt by everybody. He cowed like a whipped cur and whined: "I was simply fooling; it was all a jolly. I never did anything of the sort. I was simply trying to get Gordon on the string by telling him so."
If a fellow is such a snake as Ditson, he must get it from his parents on one side or the other. Perhaps his mother is not so good." "I do not wish to think that of any fellow's mother. I much prefer to think that he takes all his bad qualities from the other side of the house. I remember my own mother the dearest, gentlest, sweetest woman in all the world! How she loved me!
It is a second offense, too." So they went out together, and searched for Putnam and Jones. At first Putnam was obstinate, and utterly refused to let Ditson off; but Frank took him aside, and talked earnestly to him for fifteen minutes, finally securing his promise to keep silent. It was not difficult to silence Jones, and so the matter was hushed up for the time.
Harry gazed at his roommate in wonder that was not entirely unmingled with pity and disgust. He could not understand Merriwell, and such generosity toward a persistent foe on the part of Frank seemed like weakness. In the meantime Ditson had been urging Diamond to get up. "They'll call the scrap finished if you don't get onto your pins in a jiffy," he warned. "Horner's got his watch in his hand."
"The worst mistake you ever made. At last you have shown just what you are, and everybody is dead onto you. Get out of this!" "Tar and feather him!" shouted a voice. "Let him go," advised Merriwell. "He is covered with a coating of disgrace that will not come off as easily as tar and feathers." Ditson sneaked away, the hisses of his classmates sounding in his ears.
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