“I understand that you object to having to do a double lesson as a punishment. Now I dislike to have a strike in the school, and, though I do not, for one minute, admit that you are in the right, I wish to know, if Professor Skeel agrees to give out no more double lessons, will you return to your class?”
“I will make no such agreement!” shouted the irate instructor.
“Then the strike is still on!” exclaimed Tom, springing to his feet.
“Silence!” stormed Professor Skeel.
Doctor Meredith held up his hand. The commotion that had started, at once ceased.
“I will hear what Fairfield has to say,” spoke the head master, quietly.
“We have stood all we can,” went on Tom. “We do not think Professor Skeel treats us fairly. We protested once, and——”
“By an anonymous letter!” broke in the Latin teacher.
“Yes, that was hardly right,” commented the doctor, gently.