CHAPTER VI.
THE PLOT.
Wat Snell and Leslie Gage were roommates, and they certainly made a delectable pair.
Gage was naturally the leader, being the worse of the two.

He was a daring and reckless sort of fellow--one who would not stop at anything, and who would have recourse to almost any measure to gain his ends.
This revengeful fellow had never forgiven Merriwell for what he considered a great injury.

Gage had been the pitcher on the regular ball team, but, by superior skill, Merriwell had supplanted him.

That was enough to produce in Gage's heart a feeling of undying hatred for the successful plebe.
It made no difference that Frank had, in all probability, saved him from death after he had twice attempted to kill Merriwell.

Gage had been shrewd enough to see that he must dissemble if he would remain in the academy, and so he pretended to be repentant and to think Frank one of the finest fellows in the world, while his hatred and longing for "revenge" still lay hidden, black and hideous, in a secret corner of his heart.
Snell was quite a different sort of bad boy.