"And me the day after," challenged Greg Holmes. Reade, Dalzell and Hazelton all put in their claims for dates.
"You think you're going to bully me, don't you?" grunted Ben.
"No," Dave answered. "But when a fellow lies about me I'm going to make him fight or apologize."
"I don't know whether I will fight you, or not," snarled Ben.
"Then you'll get a thrashing just the same, and be called a coward by every decent fellow in school," flared Dave.
Ben quailed a bit inwardly. He had had all the fighting he wanted for the present.
"That Prescott fellow is no good, anyway," sniffed Ben, as he walked homeward with Toby Ross, the only one of the late spectators who had stood by him.
"Well, may-be he didn't tell on us," suggested Toby.
"'Course he did!"