CHAPTER XX 

DAYS OF WAITING 

Eight o'clock that evening saw the three Rovers on their way to Hope Seminary. Tom was the leader, and it had taken a good half hour's arguing on his part to get Dick and Sam to accompany him. 

"You'll make a fool of yourself, and make fools of us, too," was the way Sam expressed himself. 

"Most likely they won't want to see us," was Dick's opinion. 

"If they don't want to see us, really and truly, I want to know it," answered Tom bluntly. "I don't believe in this dodging around the bush. There is no sense in it." It had angered him to think Nellie had been seen in the company of Flockley and his cronies, and he was for "having it out" without delay. 

"Well, you'll have to lead the way," said Dick. "I'm not going to make a call and have Dora send down word that she can't see me." 

"She won't do that," said Tom. "I know her too well." 

"Well, you call on Nellie first." 

"I'm not afraid," retorted Tom. He was so "worked up" he was willing to do almost anything. 

The nearer the three students got to the seminary the slower they walked. Even Tom began to realize that he had undertaken what might prove a very delicate mission. 

"I think it would have been better to have sent a letter," suggested Sam. "Let's go back and write it before we go to bed." 

"And put down something in black and white that you'd be sorry for afterward," grumbled Dick. 
What did Tom claim about his level of fright aboubt the situation?
I'm not afraid