ought to do it easy," he lisped liquidly in answer to Harold's question.
"One hundred and twenty bucks to be the king of the campus," Dan added. "Gee, what a bargain!"
Estabrook did not explain that he had given the same estimate to the Freshman Frolic host the previous Fall and the affair had cost that trusting dupe two hundred dollars.
Harold gulped. His heart was now set upon being the Frolic host. It would make him the undisputed campus leader! The whole college would acknowledge his rule! Next to his crowning achievement of making the football team, it would be his proudest effort. But a hundred and twenty dollars! He was already spending more money at Tate than he had bargained for. He would not dare draw such a sum from his account at the Tate National Bank if he was to pay his current college expenses. Well, his mother had $285 left from his washing machine money, "saving it for a rainy day." He would write her and ask her to send him a hundred dollars out of this fund. For surely he could put the Frolic under the head of an emergency expense, an expense that was bound to earn for him much more than it had cost.
