However, so haughty a young man as Fred Ripley, though he had been slightly affected by the brave generosity, could not quite bring himself to regard Dick as other than an interloper in High School life.
Ripley had even gone so far as to bribe Tip Scammon, worthless, profligate son of the honest old janitor of the High School, to commit a series of robberies from the locker rooms in the school basement while Dick carried the key as monitor there.

The "plunder" had been found in Dick's own room at home, and the young man had been suspended from the High School for a while.

Thanks, however, to Laura Bentley and Belle Meade, two girls then freshmen and now sophs, Tip had been run down.

Then the police made Tip confess, and he was sent away to the penitentiary for a short term.

Tip, however, refused to the last to name his accomplice.