I shall approach him carefully!"
CHAPTER II.
HOW THE NEWS WAS RECEIVED.
"Huah!" grunted Browning, opening his eyes a trifle in surprise, "don't
that jar you?"
"What will Bart say?" gasped Rattleton.
"Merriwell doesn't have to take his orders from Hodge!" snapped Diamond.
"But, just the same, I think it's a fool sort of agreement!"
Merriwell was in his room talking to some of his friends of the request
of the baseball-captain.
"Hodge will be cot under the holler!" sputtered Rattleton.
"My dear Rattles, don't worry about Hodge!" Diamond begged.
"If you had only said to that captain, 'Get thee behind me, Satan!'"
grumbled Dismal Jones. "But, of course, you could not resist such a
temptation! When evil makes itself seem to us good, we're sure to give
way. 'Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall!'"
Merriwell smiled. He liked to get the opinions of his friends, though
usually he acted on his own.
"So you think it was a temptation instead of an opportunity?"
"What is a temptation?" chirped Bink Stubbs.
"Why, every time you grin at me that way I want to hit you in the
mouth," explained Danny. "It's a temptation I can hardly resist!"
"Crush it!" yelled Bink, feinting with his fists. "If you don't, I'll
have to!"
"Somebody throw those idiots out of the window!" growled Bruce, seeking
solace in his pipe.
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