"No doubt he would give a great deal to get the unused ones away.

Look out for him." Then Merriwell went back to the crowd, where Badger was exhibiting his benumbed arm and hand, and explaining how it felt to have a gun burst in one's fingers.
"Are you ready ?" he asked.

"I am." "Yes," Frank answered.
It was strange how the fellows on the shooting-grounds ranged themselves into two companies--the supporters of Merriwell in one knot and the supporters of the Kansan in the other.

It was as if an invisible hand had gone through the crowd and separated Merriwell's friends from his foes.

About Badger gathered Walter Gordan, Bertrand Defarge, Morton Agnew, Gil Cowles, Mat Mullen, Lib Benson, Newt Billings, Chan Webb, and more of the same sort, a number of them now Merriwell's pretended friends, but all at heart his enemies.