“I have seen you use your power on others,” said Bunol. “I know how you have no pity. I know how you make the members of the athletic committee do just as you say, because you find some of their secrets and you threaten to expose them. I know what you do to Joe Savage when you have the I O U papers he give you and he is afraid you send them to his father. Now I treat you just as I see you treat them. You have to come to time.” Arlington threw up his hands. “I’ll quit!” he groaned. “I’ll get out of Fardale! It’s all I can do!” “No,” said Miguel “There is one thing other you can do.” “What?” “Deek Merriwell make to your mother a promise not to do some thing to injure you.” “Well?” “You go to him; you tell him it ruin you if Miguel Bunol must leave the school. Then you say to him that if he does not mean to be to you the ruin he must keep it still about Miguel Bunol. He must not make it so that Bunol must leave the school. You do that, so that I can stay, and I will be still about you.” “Great heavens!” groaned Chester, dropping on a chair and passing a trembling hand across his forehead. “You ask me to go to Dick Merriwell and beg—beg, beg! I can’t do that!” “Oh, all right!” said Miguel, coolly rolling a cigarette. The fellow was not disturbed, for he felt that he had conquered. He saw that Arlington was wavering and ready to surrender. It was gall and wormwood to Chester to be forced into appearing as a supplicant to Merriwell, whom in his heart of hearts he still hated as much as ever, but there was no other escape for him. He must humble himself before Merriwell or get out of Fardale. If he defied Bunol the fellow would disgrace him; he had not the least doubt of that. “I’ll pay you the thousand dollars,” he suddenly said. Bunol lifted his heavy black eyebrows in surprise. “Why, you say you cannot get it,” he observed, and it was plain that he felt disappointment in this decision of Chester. “I can’t—all at once.” “Then——” “I’ll get part of it—say a hundred dollars at first. I will pay you that. You leave the academy. Later I will get the rest as fast as I can and send it to you.” Bunol struck a match and lighted his cigarette. “I am not so much a big fool,” he said. “I take it all at once. That is the only way.” “But you’ll get it! I can’t pay you all at once. It will be hard to raise the hundred. I shall have to sacrifice many things. I shall have to let some of this stuff here go. But I will do that. It is all I can do.” Bunol had not taken three whiffs from the cigarette, but he flung it into the grate and turned toward the door. “Where—where are you going?” asked Chester unsteadily. “To Professor Gunn,” was the answer. “Come back here—come back!” cried Arlington, jumping up in the greatest agitation. Bunol paused. “Why come back?” he asked. “It is no arrangement we can make.” “Yes, we can!” declared Chester. “I’ll go to Merriwell and see what I can do!” He had surrendered.