"Then you acknowledge yourself beaten?"
"No, I don't."
"Then get up. I don't want to wait here all afternoon for you."
"He has all he wants," said Pepper. "He won't get up."
"It's your fight, Ruddy," cried Joe Nelson.
"So it is," put in half a dozen cadets.
"Ritter is beaten and he knows it," added Harry Blossom, the first lieutenant of Company A.
"I—er—I won't fight any more now," mumbled the bully. He got up slowly and then, staggering to a bench, sank down heavily upon it. Evidently his punishment at Jack's hands had been heavy.
"Boys! Boys! what is the meaning of this?"
It was a loud and harsh voice from the doorway of the gymnasium that startled all of the assembled cadets. The next instant Josiah Crabtree, the head teacher, strode in.