I shall have to watch myself against that, same as against red-eye!" Pike gasped again, and then his breathing came at increasingly frequent intervals.

The students were wildly howling in and around the campus, but Badger scarcely heard them.

He was thinking only of Pike.
"This may keep him in his room a few days," he muttered.
"If it does no more than that, I don't care.

He deserved that much.

But he's got to keep clear of me, or I can't be responsible for the consequences.