I haven't been able to find out that he left any property, so Merriwell is dependent on the generosity of a rather crabbed and crusty old uncle, whose head is filled with freaks and fancies.

He seems to be just the kind of a man who would be easily turned against a nephew who had, as he would consider it, gone astray." "That settles Merriwell! If we cannot get the old uncle down on him, we are pretty poor schemers." They looked at each other and smiled again.

A precious pair of youthful plotters they were! "We must be slick about this business," warned Snell.

"We mustn't let anybody but ourselves get the least wind of it." "Certainly not." "And we must do our prettiest to pull the wool over Merriwell's eyes, for you know he is rather discerning in some things, and he may be inclined to be wary.

We must seem to think he is the finest fellow in the world." "That will be pretty hard," said Leslie, with a wry face, "but I have been doing something in that line of late, and I will keep it up.