Burt L. Standish
The Adventures of Frank & Dick Merriwell: 20+ Crime & Mystery Classics (Illustrated)
(Illustrated)
Dick Merriwell's Trap, Frank Merriwell at Yale, All in the Game, The Tragedy of the Ocean Tramp
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[email protected] 2017 OK Publishing ISBN 978-80-7583-163-7
Table of Contents
FRANK MERRIWELL AT YALE (Freshman Against Freshman)
FRANK MERRIWELL’S ALARM (Doing His Best)
FRANK MERRIWELL’S ATHLETES (The Boys Who Won)
FRANK MERRIWELL’S CHAMPIONS (All in the Game)
FRANK MERRIWELL'S RETURN TO YALE
FRANK MERRIWELL’S NEW COMEDIAN (The Rise of a Star)
FRANK MERRIWELL'S BACKERS (The Pride of His Friends)
FRANK MERRIWELL’S TRIUMPH (The Disappearance of Felicia)
FRANK MERRIWELL'S PURSUIT (How to Win)
FRANK MERRIWELL'S SON (A Chip off the Old Block)
FRANK MERRIWELL'S NOBILITY (The Tragedy of the Ocean Tramp)
FRANK MERRIWELL, JUNIOR'S GOLDEN TRAIL (The Fugitive Professor)
DICK MERRIWELL’S TRAP (The Chap Who Bungled)
DICK MERRIWELL ABROAD (The Ban of the Terrible Ten)
DICK MERRIWELL’S PRANKS (Lively Times in the Orient)
FRANK MERRIWELL'S LIMIT
CHAPTER IV. A FULLER UNDERSTANDING.
CHAPTER VI. PREPARING FOR THE FINISH.
CHAPTER VIII. HOW IT CAME ABOUT.
CHAPTER IX. A MISHAP TO RATTLETON.
CHAPTER X. THE OPPORTUNITY COMES.
CHAPTER I.
THE DAWN PARTY.
Everybody yawned. A dawn party after the prom. is likely to be a dull affair, and this one in Frank Merriwell's room was no exception to the rule. All were tired. Even little Stubbs' fund of wit and repartee seemed pretty well exhausted and he had almost given up his desperate attempt to prove entertaining to Stella Stanley, with whom he had fallen head-over-heels in love at first sight. Stella was tall and stately and little Bink voted her a "peach", a "stunner," a "queen." When a Yale man calls a girl a queen, he is giving her the highest possible compliment.
Stella had found both Stubbs and Griswold amusing little chaps, and she enjoyed being amused. She did not know they had come to the verge of blows over her; she did not know that Griswold had sworn that he would have Stubbs' heart's blood. But Bink had carried her off in triumph to Merry's dawn party after the prom., and he was the happiest fellow in New Haven. He was hard hit; possibly that explains his sudden loss of sprightliness and wit. He longed to sit still, hold her hand, and gaze into her face; but Stella was not one of the handholding kind, and it did not go with her.
"What's the matter with you?" she laughed. "You were awfully funny an hour ago. Drinking tea seems to have dampened your spirits."
"Oh," said Browning with a lazy grin, "the spirits which preceded the tea were damp enough The tea seems to have dried them up."
"If it will dry you up, take some more tea-do," begged Bink.
"Now you are beginning to talk foolishly," declared Bink.
"I do that so that you may understand me," shot back the little fellow.
Browning grunted. He could not think of anything just then that seemed to fit the occasion, and so he