"Not so loud! Some one will hear you." "I don't care who hears me," retorted the stranger in an ugly tone.

"You've been swindling me right along, it seems.

Now, you'll hand me some money to-night, and all of the balance by next Wednesday, or I'll go straight to the superintendent.

Then you'll lose your nice little berth here.

You putting on airs, and yet you told me how you had rebuked and paid back another cadet for doing the same breezy thing." Dick, his cheeks burning with the shame of having allowed himself to listen to so much, was on the very point of slipping away around the north end of Cullum Hall.