I can't say more now.

His actions have seemed to me very low and very dishonorable." The long interview ended with this.

But Merriwell, not realizing that Badger was still waiting for him in wild anxiety, made a call on Inza and Elsie, which was so pleasant that it was much more protracted than he had intended it should be, and the hour grew late.
In the meantime, other things were hurrying events to a climax.

Fairfax Lee had hastened home that night in fear of his life.

Bill Gaston, once a useful political worker, who had been driven insane by his failure to secure an appointment he craved, and who the day before had been locked up for threatening Lee's life, had escaped and was at large.