The fellow snarled the words and struck at Frank's face with his clinched hand.
Frank dodged.
"Wat Snell!" he cried, astounded.
"Yes, Wat Snell!" grated the other, who was a boy well known to him—a boy who had been his enemy years before at Fardale Academy, when they both went to school.
"You pushed me!" accused Frank.
"You lie! I did not touch you! You fell."
"I felt you push me, you miserable dog!"
"Don't dare talk like that to me!" hissed Snell. "I'll have you——"
"What! You don't dare do anything that is cowardly and treacherous! You did push me!"
"That's right!" exclaimed a boy. "I seen him do it!"