It's a great go, isn't it?"
"And you say Peter John is one?"
"Sure."
"Is he in the infirmary?"
"Yes, every one of them is there."
"Is he very much sick?"
"Can't tell yet, but he's sick enough."
"Can anybody see him?" inquired Will thoughtfully.
"No. There isn't any one allowed in the building except the nurses,
doctors, and the families of the fellows, that is, when they come. I
understand that word has been sent to all the families, and nurses have
already been engaged, and that some of them are on the ground now."
"It's terrible!" said Will with a shudder.
"I know what I'm going to do," said Mott glibly.
"What's that?"
"I'm going home. Of course, the governor won't believe me at first when
I tell him why I've returned to the ancestral abode, but you may rest
easy when he sees it in the papers, then he'll believe it all right
enough. Fine to have your daddy believe a lying newspaper before he
takes the word of his own offspring, isn't it?"
"May not be all his fault."
"Yes, it is. I'd have been as decent a fellow as you or any fellow in
college if I'd been treated halfway decently.
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