“He may, that’s a fact.”
“If he does it I’ll be hauled over the coals and expelled from the school.”
“It looks that way.”
“Now, see here, Merriwell, you’re not such a bad fellow.”
“Thanks!” said Dick again, with still greater sarcasm.
“I know I have no claim on you, and it takes a lot of nerve for me to come to you and ask a favor; but you can keep this Spaniard from throwing me down, and——”
“I can do that?”
“Sure thing.”
“How?”
“By letting up on him. By not forcing him to leave the school.”