human
Yes, you've helped me. You know Merriwell is coaching the freshman crew--or has been--for the race to-morrow. Well, I don't let any chance go to get a jab at him.
gpt
I don't see what that has to do with my helping you,
human
Course yer don't, laughed Ditson, who was almost as full as his companion.
gpt
This isn't the first time we have been out together, eh, old boy?
human
No.
gpt
Only we had to be quiet about it when you were on the crew--or when you thought you were on it.
human
That's right.
gpt
We have been pretty full once or twice.
human
I thought so when we got up the next morning.
gpt
Well, you have told me lots of things about Merriwell and what he was doing with the crew. You're a great talker when you're loaded.
human
Wazzyer mean? he asked.
gpt
Cert; but then, you know, anything to knife Merriwell.
human
Now, if we make a combine against him we can do him bad.
gpt
Wazzyer mean? Gordon again demanded.
human
Mean that you repeated anything I tol' you in confidence when I was full?
gpt
Not publicly, grinned Ditson.
human
I may have used it to injure Merriwell, but I was careful how I used it.
gpt
You're a hanged two-faced fraud! he huskily cried.
human
That's jusht what you are, Ditson! Somebody's been telling things to the sophs. They found out everything. It was you! And you pumped your points out of me when I was full.
gpt
That didn't hurt you, Ditson hastened to declare.
human
It was entirely to hurt Merriwell, and he is our common enemy.
gpt
Don't care a continental if he is! cried Walter.
human
I don't like him, but you have hurt me. Bet anything Merriwell and Old Put thought I had blowed! I didn't have any confidence in Merriwell's methods, but I didn't blow to the sophs! Still I was to blame for lettin' you get me full and pump me. And the fellows think I'm a tattler! Well, I'll be hanged if I don't even up with you by hammering the face off you right now!