You will come round to it!" "Not on your life! Hodge is a different sort of fellow from Merriwell, I allow." "And you are going to accept that invitation ?" "I told you, Pike, that I have already accepted it.

I'm not Merriwell's friend, and I despise Bart Hodge; but I'm not ungrateful.

Whatever other things we learn out West, we learn to pay back favor for favor.

I'd be a dirty coyote if I refused to accept that invitation after what Merriwell did for me.

That's the way I look at it.