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Frank , however , found it necessary to tell his companions all about the assault , and Ditson pretended to listen with interest , as if he had known nothing of the affair . The freshmen went back to Billy 's and held a council . It was decided to divide into squads and make an attempt to find out where Harry had been taken . This was done , but it proved without result , and not far from midnight all the freshmen who had been there at the time of the capture , and many others , were again gathered at Billy 's . They were quite excited over the affair , and it seemed that the beer they had absorbed had gone to the heads of some of them . In the midst of an excited discussion the door burst open , and a most grotesque-looking figure staggered into the room . It was a person who was stripped to the waist and painted and adorned like a redskin , his face striped with red and white and yellow , his hair stuck full of feathers , and his body decorated with what seemed to be tattooing .