The doctor, it was said, had forbidden Diamond to attempt to study for several days, and had ordered him to wear a bandage over his eyes.
Two or three evenings after the fight a party of freshmen gathered in Merriwell's room, for they were beginning to realize that Frank was likely to be a leader among them.
"I say, fellows," cried Dan Dorman, who was sitting on the sill of the open window, with a cigarette clinging to his lips, "do you know what Diamond is doing ?" "He's doing his best to cure those beautiful eyes of his," said Bandy Robinson.
"I'm giving it to you straight that he was out to-day and went down to the nearest gun store," declared Dorman.

"Collins says he bought a Winchester rifle, a shotgun, two revolvers, a bowie knife, a slungshot, and a set of brass knuckles." "Wo-o-oh!" groaned Dismal Jones.

"Why didn't he purchase a cannon and start for some battlefield ?" "Look out, Merry," laughed Ned Stover.

"He's after your scalp." "He'll have to get a bigger outfit than that before he takes it," declared Harry Rattleton.
"How about it, Merry ?" asked Bandy Robinson.
"I'll tell you, fellows," said Frank, who was not smoking.

"Diamond is not the fellow to give up whipped very soon.