"There's too much else to interest them," he said to Norse, one morning in the State Street Billiard Hall. "If they were up to any stunts we'd have heard before this, with the banquet coming off day after to-morrow. It's all easy sailing, thanks to the ice." Norse, however, was not so certain. "You can't tell," he said, with a significant wag of his head. "Maybe this keeping-still now means action at the last minute. What do your own freshmen say?" "There's not one in the frat. who thinks they'll attempt anything," Kerwin replied. "And as for the sophomores, they say there's too much going on for them to waste time fooling with a dinky freshman toastmaster." Norse's doubts were not, however, to be so easily dispelled. "You'd better keep an eye out," he advised. "I'll help you all I can. If I get next to anything I'll let you know." But neither that day nor the day after did he hear a word that sounded in the least suspicious, but on Friday he did; and thus wise: At noon he met Kerwin again in the billiard hall. The toastmaster drew him to one side. "I'm fixed," he whispered with a grin of satisfaction. "How?" Norse asked. "Got my dress suit hid." "Where, in the furnace?" "No; better'n that. You know that built-in closet in my room? Yes. Well, the top of it is lower than it seems to be from the front, and I've put my suit, and dress-shirt, and all, up there. Such a simple way of hiding the stuff they'll never think of, if they get into the room while I'm away." "Anybody know about it?" "Not a soul but you." "Good. It does look as if they were going to let you alone, but you can't be too careful the rest of the day. What are you going to do this afternoon?" Kerwin was going to do many things; he was going to be busier than a puppy with a bone, he said. "You see," he explained, "I want the affair to go off as smooth as oil; and, by Jove, it's going to, if I've got anything to say about it. What were you going to do?" Norse had planned to go skating. "Go on," Kerwin urged, then perceiving that his friend hesitated, he added, slapping him sturdily on the back, "Don't you have any fear for me. Go on. I wish I might go but I simply can't; and that's all there is to it." "If you think it's safe, all right," Norse said. "Safe!" Kerwin exclaimed, flauntingly. "Of course its safe. Go on!" So Norse went.