I can't tell you, Inza, how I have
felt."
"I can understand!" said the dark-haired girl. "I have good cause to
understand!"
"I know that really you are more worthy of him, Inza, than I am. I have
always thought that, when I wasn't crazy with the fear that you might
win him away from me. But I just can't surrender my claim, slender as
you think it!"
"For Frank's sake," repeated Inza, "we will not quarrel about him! As
for these other questions----"
Winnie's light step was heard in the hall, and the sentence died
unfinished.
CHAPTER V.
HODGE'S REPENTANCE.
Bart Hodge absented himself from class and lecture, but later that
night, after all the members of the "flock" had departed from
Merriwell's room, Bart came in. His face was flushed and feverish.
"I don't care what the other fellows think, Merry!" he said, dropping
into a chair as if he felt that he had no right there. "But I do care
what you think! I went away in a huff, saying to myself that I'd never
come back until you sent for me, when I knew that you wouldn't send for
me, and that I would come back. And here I am."
"How could I have sent for you, Bart?" Merry questioned. "I knew you
would feel differently when you had time to think it all over, and I
told the fellows so.
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