room, whistling.

"The very fellow!" exclaimed Frank. "I say, Bob, I want to ask your
advice."




CHAPTER XVI

THE FOOT RACE


"You want my advice?" asked Bob in some surprise.

"Just that, Bob," responded Frank Jordan.

"Huh--no one ever asked that before. I'm afraid I'm not much in that line,
but I'll do the best I can."

"All right. Sit down while I tell you a little story," directed Frank.

Bob had come into the room red and perspiring, as though he had just been
indulging in some very violent exercise. He soon settled down to steadiness
from sheer interest as Frank proceeded to talk.

Frank began at the beginning of quite a lengthy narrative. He recited the
episode of the diamond bracelet. He described his first meeting with Ned
Foreman. Then he brought his recital down to what he had seen and heard in
the lonely hut the night of the hazing and while Bob had been fast asleep.