Browning and Diamond had even argued that he ought not to be longer recognized as a member of Merriwell's set.

The only one who had ventured to stand up for him, aside from Merriwell himself, was Harry Rattleton.

Frank had defended him to the last, insisting that allowances should be made for the peculiarities of Bart's disposition, and asserting that he would be found all right in the end.
Frank was thinking of all this as he drew near the home of Winnie Lee.
His intention was to call on Inza and have a talk with her about the 'Varsity boat-races at New London in June, for Inza was the "mascot" of the Yale crew that was to meet Harvard at New London.

In addition, he expected to inform her and her friends of the arrangements made for the ball-game with Hartford on Saturday.
He looked about him after he had tripped lightly up the steps and rang the bell.

The Lee home was in a fashionable and exclusive part of New Haven, and the spacious grounds were beginning to take on beauty and color under the reviving influences of spring.