"No, sir."
"Why not?"
"It might be done under cover of a rush, but a single fight between a soph and a fresh under such public conditions would be sure to get them both in trouble."
"I don't care a continental! I've stood him just as long as I can! If I can give him a good square licking I'll stand expulsion, should it come to that!"
They saw that Browning was too heated to pause for sober thought, and so they gathered close around him and forced him to listen to reason.
It took no small amount of argument to induce the king to give over the idea of going onto the ball field and attacking Merriwell, but he was finally shown the folly of such a course. However, he vowed over and over that the settlement with Merriwell should come very soon.
CHAPTER XV.
ON THE BALL FIELD.
The sophomores went in to watch the freshmen practice and incidentally to have sport with them.