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`` Then why not try my plan ? I know it will work . '' Bassett leaned forward and talked in low tones as if fearing to be overheard , but there was no danger of that , for the other persons in the restaurant were too much interested in their own affairs to eavesdrop on two young fellows chatting in a booth . At eight o'clock Campbell and Bassett sauntered out and Chuan Kai received his fat tip . The big car rolled out to the `` mansion '' on the hillock and , when the chauffeur had been found , sped to Ridgley School . Five minutes before nine it discharged its burden at the doors of Gannett Hall . During the week that followed there was a frenzy of football talk in every Ridgley dormitory .