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You'll break over before two days are up yes, before one day is up. It's no use." Rattleton bit his lips. "Why, you are dying for a whiff now!" chuckled Ditson. "I know you are. I got along a whole day, but it was a day of the most intense torture." "There may be others with more stamina than you, Ditson," snapped Rattleton.
They were Harry Rattleton, Jack Diamond and one or two more. Diamond and Merriwell were not friendly, but they had ceased to be open enemies. For the time being the hatchet was buried, and there was peace between them. But the two did not become friends.
"Rattleton ought to be able to guess who I mean," craftily said Ditson as he arose. "I'm not calling names, for I don't know anything certain. If I had proof but I haven't. Never mind. You ought to know enough to watch a certain fellow who thinks his place is filled by a person not his equal. He says there is favoritism in the matter. I rather think I have spoken plainly enough.
"Bive me a gear I mean give me a beer!" gasped that fantastic individual. "I am nearly dead!" "It's Rattleton!" shouted the freshmen. They crowded around him. "Well, say, you are a bird!" cried Lucy Little, whose right name was Lewis Little. "A regular bird of paradise," chuckled Bandy Robinson. "Where are those fellows?" demanded Frank Merriwell. "Where did they leave you? Tell me, old man."
Then Frank solemnly declaimed: "He walked along one summer day, As stately as a prince; He stepped upon a banana peel, And he hasn't 'banana' where since." Rattleton gave a still more dismal groan. "You are conspiring with the elements to hasten my death!" he said. "I can't stand many more like that." "You should wear a sheet of writing paper across your breast, same as I do," said Diamond.
The sophs were inclined to regard this as a jolly, and they continued confident of winning over the freshmen with the greatest ease. "I say, Merry," said Rattleton, the day before the race was to come off, "you can't guess who Gordon is chumming with lately." "I don't know as I can. Who is it?" "Ditson." "Get out!" "That's on the level."
At breakfast Rattleton was chafed by the freshmen, and he boiled more than ever. "Somebody has my coat, vest, hat, shirt and undershirt," he said as he thought the affair over. "I had to go home in a linen duster which I got down to Billy's last night. I don't care so much for the clothes I lost, but I'd like to know who has 'em. I'd sue him!"
Frank hastened to get into his clothes, in order that Diamond might have a chance. Rattleton had brushed the dirt and sawdust off those clothes, so they looked pretty well, and Merriwell showed no traces of what he had passed through when he stepped out of the little room.
There was no band to welcome 'Umpty-eight back to New Haven. No crowd of cheering freshmen was at the station, and those who had gone on to Cambridge to play and to see the game got off quietly very quietly and hurried to their rooms. Merriwell was in his room ahead of Rattleton. Harry finally appeared, wearing a sad and doleful countenance.
"I'm afraid this is rather a serious matter," said Dismal Jones. "Oh, don't begin to croak!" cried Rattleton. "Merriwell knows his business. Hurry up with your makeup. Can't tell how early the sophs will call." So the boys hastened to complete their disguise, and a decidedly savage-looking band they were when all was completed. Frank surveyed them with satisfaction.
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