He makes me sick," he said to himself.

"If I hadn't promised his governor to make him stick, I would shake him." Ferdy was still smarting under Mr.Rhodes's biting sarcasm when the three came together again.

He meant to be even with Rhodes, and he watched his opportunity.
Rhodes was a connection of the Wentworths, and had been helped at college by Norman's father, which Ferdy knew.

One of the handsomest girls in their set, Miss Louise Caldwell, was a cousin of Rhodes, and Norman was in love with her.

Ferdy, who could never see any one succeeding without wishing to supplant him, had of late begun to fancy himself in love with her also, but Mr.Rhodes, he knew, was Norman's friend.