When Brinker Hadley enters Gene's room, he sarcastically
remarks that Gene has "real influence" around the campus of Devon. After all, he has a
big room to himself now that Finny has been injured.
"I'll bet you knew all the time Finny wouldn't
be back this fall. That's why you picked him for a roommate,
right...
"You fixed it,....You knew all the time. I'll be
it was all your
doing."
Ill at ease, Gene
tries to dismiss these remarks, by retorting, "what a crazy thing to say," but his voice
is strained. So, he suggests that he and Brinker go to the butt room. Once there,
Brinker introduces Gene as they enter, "Here's your prisoner, gentlemen." When one of
the boys queries, "What's the charge?" Brinker
responds,
"Doning away with his roommate so he could have a
whole room to himself. Rankest treachery....Practically
fratricide."
Gene shakes him
off,
"Shut
up! I swear you ride a joke longer than anybody I
know."
Surprisingly, however,
Finny does return to Devon, just showing up one night before Gener returns to the
dormitory room. In the morning, Brinker barges into the room to ask Gene if he is ready
to sign up for the war only to also discover Finny's presence. "Your little plot didn't
work so well after all," he comments. Of course, Finny demands to know the meaning of
Brinker's remark.
The room was bitterly cold. I stood trembling
in front of Phineas, still holding his crutches in place, unable to turn and face
Brinker and this joke he had gotten into his head, this catastophic
joke.
After Brinker's words,
Finny looks at Gene with an "odd expression." Evidently, he has deduced the meaning of
Brinker's innuendos.
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