"Oh, no!" interrupted Tad. "I have said it."
"Eh? I hawdly think I understand, don't yer know."
"Think it over," advised the little soph as he turned away.
It is probable that Bruce Browning was more thoroughly disgusted than any of his friends.
"Confound it!" he thought. "If I'd stuck to that fellow and done him up anyway he wouldn't have been able to carry out this trick. If he is given any kind of a show he is bound to take advantage of it."
Bruce felt like fighting.
"I'm going in there and lick him," he declared. "I will settle this matter with Merriwell right away."
But some of his friends were more cautious.
"It won't do," declared Puss Parker.
"Won't do?"