"I just thought I'd give him a scare."
"Very well, gentlemen," said Baker, calmly, "what's your verdict?"
"Guilty!" thundered the students in chorus.
Miller trembled so that the chains to which he was clinging rattled.
"See here," he said, feebly, "I don't see how it could be fatal, for I heard that Frank Merriwell was seen around on the streets day before yesterday."
"Then you doubt, do you, that your cowardly trick has proved fatal?"
"How could it," asked Miller, "if he was going around just as usual? I think this is some infernal trick of you students——"
"You'd better speak respectfully."
"Well," stammered Miller, "I don't want to cause no offense, but you told me I could defend myself, and I ain't going to believe that Frank Merriwell was seriously hurt. I'm sorry for it if he was, and I won't do it again."
"Take him down and let him see the body of his victim!" said Baker, in a solemn tone.