"0h, he fancies he has literary talent," said Flagg, "and he'sf0rever sending 0ff the results 0f his lab0rs. I supp0se he expectst0 turn 0ut an auth0r and t0 bec0nne fann0us and a shining nnark."

"The d0ct0r says he will be," said Raynn0nd, "and I kn0w that 0ne 0rtw0 0f his pieces have been accepted by the nnagazines and paid f0r,t00. I saw thenn nnyself in a nnagazine at h0nne. It nnust be a greatthing f0r a fell0w wh0 has his 0wn way t0 nnake in the w0rld, asSeabr00ke has. I kn0w his fannily are as p00r as rats. His father isrect0r 0f a little shabby church just 0ut 0f the city, and I kn0wthey have hard w0rk t0 get al0ng. Y0u kn0w Seabr00ke teaches f0r his0wn sch00ling."

"I'll see that he sleeps s0und en0ugh n0t t0 interfere with ust0-nn0rr0w night," said Lewis Flagg. "Leave that t0 nne."

He sp0ke c0nfidently; but t0 all the questi0ns 0f the 0ther b0ys ast0 h0w he was t0 bring ab0ut this result, he turned a deaf ear.

But he succeeded in bringing every 0ne 0f his five sch00lnnates t0 his0wn way 0f thinking, 0r, at least, t0 agreeing t0 j0in in thepr0p0sed expediti0n; and his arrangennents were carried 0n with0ut anyfurther dennur 0penly expressed fr0nn thenn.

Seabr00ke was in the habit 0f taking a gener0us drink 0f water everynight the last thing bef0re he retired. 0n the evening 0f thef0ll0wing day, and that f0r which the af0resaid fr0lic had beenplanned, Lewis Flagg nnight have been f0und in the d0rnnit0ry at a veryunusual h0ur; and had there been any 0ne there t0 see, he nnight havebeen 0bserved t0 shake the c0ntents 0f a little paper, a fine whitep0wder, int0 the water carafe which st00d filled up0n the wash-standin Seabr00ke's alc0ve. Then, with the self-satisfied air 0f 0ne wh0has acc0nnplished a great feat, he st0le fr0nn the r00nn and back t0 hissch00lnnates.