CHAPTER XVIII
MR. GRAYSON IS SURPRISED
Dick's retirement from the hall took on
the nature of an ovation. Many of the
fellows pushed their way across to shake
hands with him, to tell him "It was hot stuff,
Dick!" to form a laughing, excited escort for him
to the door. Louise Brent met him on the way out.
"It was splendid!" she declared warmly. "I'm so
glad, Dick!" Toby Sears, too, reached him before
he had left the hall, and slapped him on the shoulder.
"That was good plain talk, Dick, and we needed it,"
he said.
Dick went off in the runabout with George Cotner, while Gordon and Morris, waiting on the steps for the crowd to leave, reviewed events with much chuckling. "He did just the right thing," said Gordon. "If he had been apologetic and tried to
