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Jordan turned on his heel, starting to walk away, when Mr. Henckley leaped after him, seizing him by the arm. "See here " began the money shark hoarsely. "Let go of my arm," warned Jordan in a rage, "or I'll hit you harder than Douglass did." As the money lender shrank back out of Jordan's reach, the cadet strode off swiftly. Mr.
Henckley, his voice now wholly wheedling. "What the cadets may see fit to do for their own protection is hardly a matter that can be discussed with you, sir," returned Douglass coldly. "Oh, now see here, there are ways and ways," spoke Henckley in a wheedling tone. "Let's all be friendly." Before Douglass could guess what was happening the money shark had pressed a hand against the cadet's.
"You're talking just to hear yourself talking," sneered the stranger coarsely. "No; I'm not, Henckley," retorted the cadet. "What was the trick, then?" "Don't you wish you knew?" laughed Jordan. "I don't care much," replied the stranger named Henckley. "But I can't just picture you as doing anything extremely clever.
"Of course it will, and I always knew it would." Meanwhile Cadet Jordan was surveying Henckley with a look of mingled rage, disgust and consternation. "Now, you've gone and done it, you bull-necked, toad-brained idiot!" cried the elegant Mr. Jordan. "Why didn't you pay up like a man, and this would never have happened," growled Henckley, rubbing the spot where Douglass had struck him.
"What part of it was clever, anyway?" jeered Henckley. "Why, putting the whole game through, and making the class take it up, yet doing it all so that the trick could never be traced back to me," replied Jordan. In the shadow, Durville turned briskly, gripping Dick's hand with his own. Douglass saw.
Then he caught another man, named Durville, for going off the post in 'cit. clothes, and that settled the case against that fellow Prescott. But it was my trick that made all the rest possible." "I don't see that that was anything very clever," rejoined Henckley. "I told you, didn't I," argued Jordan, "that it was as much luck as cleverness."
"Pay up like a man?" sneered Jordan. "Well, this affair has one small, good side to it. You've got me run out of the cadet corps, but " "Out of the cadet corps?" screamed Henckley. "Then what becomes of what you owe me?" "That's something you'll have to settle to your own satisfaction," jeered the dismayed cadet. "I can offer you no help."
Jordan," continued the class president, facing the dismayed one in gray uniform, "I don't believe the significance of this meeting has escaped you?" "No-o-o," wailed Jordan in misery. "Now, see here, young fellows, don't you go and blab what you've been spying on just now," remonstrated Mr. Henckley, a note of dismay creeping into his tone.
With an impatient gesture Douglass shook his own hand free. But something like paper remained in his palm. Douglass held up that hand, and discovered that it held a banknote that Henckley had slipped into Douglass' hand as a bribe. Cadet Douglass calmly tore that banknote in bits and flung it off on the breeze. The fragments were out of sight in an instant.
Jordan," he called. "Your conversation has not been a private one!" With the strong wind blowing away from Jordan, that cadet heard only a rumble of voices. Both he and Henckley, however, caught sight of the advancing figures. "Hello! What are you fellows doing here?" demanded the money lender, with blustering indignation.
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