CHAPTER XXV.
THE TRAITOR DISCOVERED.
"I say, Merry," said Rattleton, the day before the race was to come off, "you can't guess who Gordon is chumming with lately." "I don't know as I can.

Who is it ?" "Ditson." "Get out!" "That's on the level." "But Ditson the same as suggested outright that Gordon was the traitor who had told the sophs so much." "That is true, but Gordon doesn't know it." "Well, he ought to.

What do you think Ditson is doing ?" "Oh, he is working Gordon, who has been drinking like a fish since Old Put dropped him." Frank was troubled.

He did not approve of Ditson, and he feared that Gordon had a weak nature, so that he could be easily influenced.

Walter had greatly taken to heart being dropped by Putnam, and he seemed utterly reckless and careless about himself.