“If that Jap wished and he could catch you just right, he might injure you for life.”
“Would he venture to do that?” cried Harrow.
“Fred Fillmore would be delighted to have him do it.”
“This affair seems more serious than I suspected,” said Spaulding. “Are you certain you can handle him, Merriwell?”
“No man can be certain of his ability to handle another who is a stranger to him,” confessed Frank.
“But you had no hesitation about agreeing to meet him. I fancied you felt fully confident.”
“I give you the assurance that I shall handle him if it is in my power.”
“Don’t worry; he’ll do the trick,” asserted Hodge, whose confidence in Frank was solid as the everlasting hills.
It was not a long drive from the club to the gymnasium on Howard Street. They left the carriage and ascended a flight of stairs.