"Some fellow evidently had a grudge against me." "It looks that way," responded Rowe. "Who do you suppose it could be?" Before Frank could answer there was a knock at the door and Baker hurried in. "Ah!" he said, in a tone of relief, "I see you've got through all right. There was something I meant to tell you, Rowe, and I forgot all about it." "What was it?" asked Rowe. "Why," answered Baker, "Browning came in, you remember, just before we started in on Merriwell's essay?" "Yes. I wondered what he wanted." "Well, he came in to say how he had heard that Miller, the cigar dealer, had it in for Frank, and that we'd better look out lest Miller take advantage of the initiation to put up some dirty job. Of course I meant to tell you about it before you took the neophyte to the street, but Prof. Adler's interruption drove it clean out of my mind. I didn't think of it until I was half through with Rattleton, who was the neophyte in my party. "I see you've got through to-night all right, but it'll be just as well to look out----" Baker stopped, for there was something in the expression of the faces before him that aroused his curiosity. "What's the matter?" he asked, suddenly. They told him and he listened with growing indignation. "It must have been Miller!" he exclaimed, at last. "Didn't any of you fellows recognize him?" Now that Miller's name was mentioned the students thought that they did recognize him, but they could not be sure of it. "We must find out about it!" said Baker, earnestly. "This thing has not only endangered a student's life, but it has put all secret societies at Yale in danger of their existence. "If Frank had been seriously hurt the faculty would surely hear of it and nothing would convince them that we weren't to blame for it. Miller must be prevented from doing anything of this kind again." "Probably he won't try it again," Frank remarked, "for if he saw how successful his trick was, he must be convinced at this minute that I was maimed for life, if not killed." "Merriwell insists on going on with the initiation," said Rowe, "and I have told him that, under the circumstances, we would erase all the black marks against him." "That's right," responded Baker, solemnly. "I think we'd better go on with the initiation just as usual, and meantime some of us will look up Miller and see what we can do about him." "I rather wish," suggested Frank, "that you could wait on that until the initiation is over, so that I can take a hand in it." "It won't do to lose any time," returned Baker. "You go to bed, Merriwell, for you'll probably find that you need rest; the rest of us will go and have an interview with Miller." As Frank was bound to obey, he made no further objection to this plan, and accordingly went to his room. Baker and Rowe and the others proceeded to the little shop where Miller did a cigar business.