"What an odd name!" commented Mark.

"Is he a doctor?" asked Jack.

"He speaks wid a Germannes aceetnuation," said Washington. "He
suttinly uses de most ogilistic conglomerations--"

"If he can beat you, he's a wonder," said Jack. "But where did
he come from?"

"I 'clar t' goodness I doan't know. All I knows is dat he jest
comed. One day he wasn't dere, and come next day he was."

"Does the professor know him?"

"Suah! He's a friend ob de perfesser," added Washington. "De
perfesser was pow'ful glade t' see him."

"'Then he must be some scientist," said Mark.

"Dat's it! He's chock full obscientistical bombasticness an'
labiodentalisms," said the colored man.

"I guess the professor wanted us to meet him and learn something
that we couldn't in college," spoke Mark. "Well, we'll soon be
there."

"Yes," assented Jack. "I want to find out what it's all about.
Santell Roumann--that's an odd name."