human
I say, fellows, cried Dan Dorman, who was sitting on the sill of the open window, with a cigarette clinging to his lips,
gpt
He's doing his best to cure those beautiful eyes of his,
human
I'm giving it to you straight that he was out to-day and went down to the nearest gun store, declared Dorman.
gpt
Collins says he bought a Winchester rifle, a shotgun, two revolvers, a bowie knife, a slungshot, and a set of brass knuckles.
human
Wo-o-oh! groaned Dismal Jones.
gpt
Why didn't he purchase a cannon and start for some battlefield?
human
Look out, Merry, laughed Ned Stover.
gpt
He's after your scalp.
human
He'll have to get a bigger outfit than that before he takes it,
gpt
How about it, Merry?
human
I'll tell you, fellows, said Frank, who was not smoking.
gpt
Diamond is not the fellow to give up whipped very soon. I'm dead sure to hear from him again.
human
He's a cad,
gpt
I think you fellows judge him rather harshly, said Frank.
human
He is a Southerner, and he looks at many things differently than we do. From his standpoint he seems to be right.
gpt
Well, he'll have to get those notions out of his head if he wants to stay in college, airily declared Dan Dorman.
human
Now, I came here with the idea of falling into the ways in vogue. Everything goes with me. That's the way to get along.
gpt
I am not so sure of that, Merriwell returned.
human
A man must have some individuality. If you do everything everybody wants you to, it won't be long before they'll not want you to do anything.
gpt
Oh, well, what's the use to be always hanging off and getting yourself disliked?
human
One extreme is as bad as the other. Now, I make allowances for Diamond, and I am not inclined to believe him such a bad fellow.
gpt
Oh, you give me the flubdubs! he exploded.
human
Why, that fellow hates you, and he means to do you some time. Still you are soft enough to say he's not such a bad fellow! It's disgusting!
gpt
Time will tell, smiled Frank.
human
All of you fellows must admit that he has sand.
gpt
Oh, a kind of bulldog stick-to-it-iveness,
human
I'll tell you one thing, said Bandy Robinson;
gpt
Eh? What makes you think so?
human
Oh, I've got it straight. Browning has been to see him.
gpt
No! Why, Browning is king of the sophs!
human
And he is jealous of Merriwell.
gpt
Jealous?
human
Sure. He says Merry is altogether too 'soon' for a fresh, and he must be taken down. I tell you I've got it straight. He'll put up some kind of a game to enable Diamond to get square.
gpt
Well, this is rather interesting, confessed Frank, showing that he was aroused.
human
I'll have to look out for Mr. Browning.
gpt
He's a hard fellow to go against, solemnly said Dismal Jones.
human
He's a Le Boule man, and they say he may take his choice of the other big societies next year.
gpt
Oh, what's that amount to?
human
It amounts to something here; but then he's a fighter, and he is authority on fighters and fighting.
gpt
He is too fat to fight.
human
They say he can train down in a week. He was the greatest freshman half-back ever known at Yale.
gpt
Half-back--Browning a half-back! Oh, say, that fellow couldn't play football!
human
Not a great deal now, perhaps, but he could last year. He'd be on the regular team now, but his father swore to take him out of college if he didn't stop it. You see, Browning is not entirely to blame for his laziness. He inherits it from his father, and the old man will not allow him to lead in athletics, so whatever he does must be done secretly.