“You—you want me to! Well, what you want is nothing to me. What you want and what I’ll do are two entirely different things.”
“You will resign,” declared Dick, with positive assurance.
“Not much!”
“You will resign.”
“Why? Because you order it? Because you want to run the football-team, the committee, and everything connected with Fardale athletics? Well, you’ll find that you can’t have everything your own way!”
“If you do not resign,” said Dick, “I shall immediately take steps to compel you to do so.”
“You compel me?”
“I shall.”
“Why, you crazy idiot! You conceited duffer! You swell-headed——”
“That will do!” came sternly from Dick’s lips. “I know you would like to provoke me into attacking you here, in order that you might claim I came to your room and assaulted you. I shall not touch you in this room, but if you continue your insulting epithets I shall call you to account elsewhere the first opportunity that presents.”