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174 "There are some pretty plain hints. Some of the fellows think it's time there was a rival society started to operate against the Crown. Once that's done, it will mean a continuous wrangle in the school."

"I don't see why Stoddard's a better man," insisted Watson.

"He's written some pretty good stuff for the 'Mirror,' and Albree never has, for one thing," Harry explained.

"But Albree's more amusing."

"That's not really the point, and you know it, Bruce. Now are you fellows going to be pig-headed and make trouble, or are you going to give in when nine tenths of the society show you that you're in the wrong?"

"I told Tom Albree I'd get him elected; he wants to join," Frank Windsor muttered stubbornly. "Oh, that's it!" exclaimed Harry, in a sort of exasperated despair. "And now you don't like to own up to him that you can't do what you promised!" He thought a moment, and then he said, "I tell you what, Frank. If I