CHAPTER XIX. - TEXAS TURNS HIGHWAYMAN.There were six terrified plebes up at Camp McPherson, when Mark rushed in, pale and breathless, to tell them the reason for his summons to headquarters. The Banded Seven had not had such a shock since they organized to resist the yearlings.
"Benny Bartlett!" cried Texas, springing up in rage. "Do you mean that little rascal I licked the day he got sassy during exams?"
"That's he," said Mark, "and he's come back to get his revenge."
"And you don't mean," cried the six, almostin one breath, "Colonel Harvey believes it?"
"Why shouldn't he?" responded Mark, despairingly. "I cannot see any way out of it. The whole thing's a dirty lie from beginning to end, but it makes a straight story when it is told, and I can't disprove it."
"But I thought you said,
