"If you wish to regard it as such."
"Oh, I am not anxious; I simply wanted to know just what you meant it for."
"Then let it go as a challenge."
"For what—high jump, or broad jump?"
"Both."
"That's the talk!" laughed one of the spectators. "Now we will have more sport!"
"All right," laughed Frank. "I will go you, though I have not been doing much jumping lately, and I am not in my best form."
"That will sound all right if you beat," said Rains; "but it will not do for an excuse if you lose."
"All right; let it go. I won't try to make any other excuse in case you are the victor."
In a mass the boys surged toward a piece of ground just outside of the gymnasium adapted to jumping.