"So you did!"
"Good old Angel!"
"You'll be first another time!"
"Oh, what rot!" exclaimed Dick. "Can't you let a fellow speak? What I want to say is that Jim Hartland's twice as good as me."
"He didn't make much show, anyhow," growled Simpson.
"No, he didn't. And why? Because, when his father was drowned, he went to work to help his mother. If it hadn't been for that, he'd have won the 'Gayton' easily."
"Well, he lost it!" growled Simpson; "and through him the Deanery lost it, too!"
"How's that?"
"How's that! Why, wasn't it through his bounce that Dandy Braithwaite got drowned?"
"Don't listen to him, Angel," said Macdonald, for Dick had doubled up his fists, and his eyes were flashing fire.