No one else seems to have had the courage to tell you, and I shall." Fairfax Lee began to look interested.
"You are very kind," he said, "and I thank you in advance for your favor." This was so auspicious a beginning that Pike's courage rose.
"I want to have a frank talk with you about a certain young Yale man--Mr.Buck Badger.

You must have noticed that he is very devoted in his attentions to your daughter ?" There was no reply to this, though Pike halted, in the expectation that there would be one.
"I am well acquainted with Badger.

In fact, until very recently, he was my roommate, and we were good friends.

Perhaps when I tell you that he is not a fit man to associate with your daughter, you may think I am led by the fact that Badger and I are not now the friends we were once.

But it is not so.