"I will strangle him."
"Wait! You can't do it here!"
"Let me go!"
"Thornton is right," declared Andy Emery, who had placed himself between the two foes. "You cannot fight him here, old man."
"Then fix it so I can fight him somewhere—anywhere! I could murder him!"
"You will have to wrestle him."
"Yes," said Thornton, "you will have to do that, Fred, or his friends will believe you are afraid."
"Then I will wrestle him—and I will break his back!"
"You must calm down before you attempt it, and you must promise to wrestle fairly according to rules."