CHAPTER XXV
JACK MAKES A DISCOVERY
Dan Baxter was evidently much chagrined. Pepper stood his ground and looked the master of Putnam Hall squarely in the face.
“Don’t you know that fighting is against the rules of this institution?” said Captain Putnam.
“Captain Putnam, I have not been fighting,” answered Pepper, as coolly as he could.
“Not fighting? Do you deny that you just knocked Baxter down?”
“No, sir, I do not deny it. I knocked him down twice.”
“And yet you do not call that fighting?”
“I do not, sir.”
“Well, what is it then?”
“I was walking out here when Baxter came up. He began to pick a quarrel, and without warning, as some of these boys can testify, he struck me in the chin and knocked me flat on my back. That made me angry and when I got up he struck at me again. Then I sailed in and knocked him down twice.”