King soon overtook him, and giving him a slap on the face, exclaimed:
“Take that, you little sneak! Now you can go and tell ‘uncle’ that virtue has been rewarded.”
Alfred ran away again as quickly as he could, and found Walter and Steve waiting for him in a boat. They were going to row, while he was to steer.
“What makes your face so red on one side?” asked Steve.
“It was hit.”
“Who did it? Herbert King, I suppose?” demanded Walter.
“Yes.”
“What for?”
“He said I was a sneak.”
“When we meet him again we’ll give him one back,” exclaimed Steve, who had not yet settled his own quarrel with King.