I guess this will put a crimp in Lawyer Langridge, all right."
"Who was this Jacob Randall mentioned in the deed?" asked Frank, who was carefully reading the document.
"Oh, he was some relative to the Randall who founded the college," declared Phil. "Randall, the founder, got it later, and endowed the college. Jove! but this is a great find, all right, eh, fellows?"
"It's a good thing I came down hard in that seat, or we'd never found the deed," went on Tom. "Otherwise we might have traded back this chair for our own, and never would have known a thing about the quit-claim."
"But where is our chair?" asked Sid. "And how in the name of the sacred cow did the deed get in the seat of this one?"
"Say, don't ask any more questions, or I'll go batty," declared Tom. "Come on, let's take this deed to Prexy right away."
It was such a momentous occasion that nothing less than a full delegation of the four "guardsmen" could do justice to it, so the quartette of chums invaded the office of Dr. Churchill, to that gentleman's no small amazement. On the way our heroes met several of their chums, but they did not mention their find, thinking it best to let the proper authorities know of it first.