Do you twig ?" There was a moment of silence and then a stir.

A deep sigh of relief came from the masked lads, and some of them showed an inclination to cheer Merriwell.
Diamond seemed nonplused for the moment.

He glared at Frank, his hands clinched and his face pale.
At last he slowly said: "A duel is something no gentleman can blow about, so if you are a gentleman you will have to remain silent, sir." "That's the way you Southerners look at it, but yon will excuse us Northerners if we do not see it in the same light.

A hazing is something we do not blow about, but you seem determined to let out everything, for all that it would be a dirty thing to do.

In order to even the matter, these fellows are sure to tell that you came here to fight a duel with deadly weapons, and you'll find yourself rusticating in Virginia directly." "'Way down in ole Virginny," softly warbled one of the delighted sophomores.