"I told him all I had discovered."
"Which wasn’t much, thanks to the kid who caught you in the tree watching Fardale’s secret practise, and——"
"Don’t speak of that!" harshly exclaimed Uric, his face flushing at the remembrance. "Some day I’ll kill that kid!"
Lynch laughed at Uric’s words, which made Scudder still more angry.
"Don’t laugh!" he snarled. "You ran off and left me when you heard the boy coming. But for that——"
"I did not know it was a boy."
"You might have waited to see."
"And been caught, perhaps, by some one from the academy. I did not care to take the chances."
"Not you! Yet now you wish me to communicate with a Viewland chap and offer to give away important information concerning Fardale. Thank you, Mr. Lynch; I may be a fool, but I’m not such a thundering big fool as you take me to be!"
"You’ve let a little thing like that knock the sand out of you. I thought you had more backbone."