"I'm glad to meet you.

I've heard of you before." Then the quartet drew chairs up to the blaze, and, as Remsen talked, Joel examined his new acquaintance.
Digbee was a year older than West and Joel.

He was in the senior class, and was spoken of as one of the smartest boys in the school.

Although a Hampton House resident, he seldom was seen with the others save at the table, and was usually referred to among themselves as "Dig," both because that suggested his Christian name and because, as they said, he was forever digging at his books.

In appearance Albert Digbee was a tall, slender, but scarcely frail youth, with a cleanly cut face that looked, in the firelight, far too pale.