“No, no!” yelled Mumps. “Don’t turn the water on me, please don’t! I—er—I didn’t come here of my own free will.”
“You didn’t?”
“No, Reff Ritter and Coulter and Paxton made me come,” whined the sneak.
“Were you going to report to them?” demanded Pepper.
“Yes. They made me do it.”
“Then we’ll let you off on one condition—and only one,” said Jack.
“What is that?”
“That you don’t breathe a word to anybody about what has been said.”
“All right, I promise.”
“If you break your promise——”