"Spy! spy!" cried the boys, jumping up and rushing back.
Dick yanked the fellow out in a hurry.
"Come out here, you sneak!" he exclaimed hotly. "Let us have a look at you!"
"Be careful," warned the spy angrily. "You’ll tear my clothes."
"They ought to be torn!" retorted Dick. "You should have them torn off your back!"
Then the fellow struck at Dick, who dodged the blow. The spy tried to break away and seek some means of escape, for he realized that the Fardale players were certain to be furiously angry.
"Let me get at him!" roared Brad Buckhart. "He’ll think he’s been run over by a stampeded bunch of longhorns!"
"Give me a chance!" came from Bob Singleton. "I want to thump him once!"
But Frank Merriwell leaped in and checked their furious assault on the fellow.
"Stop!" he said sharply. "Let’s have a look at him. Let’s see who he is."