“Tell your father, if you like,” said Hector, quietly. “I don’t know whether he will sustain you or not in your insults, but if he does, then I shall have two opponents instead of one.”
“Does that mean that you will attack my father?” demanded Guy, hoping for an affirmative answer, as it would help him to prejudice his father against our hero.
“No,” answered Hector, smiling, “I don’t apprehend there will be any necessity, for he won’t insult me as you have done.”
Guy lost no time in seeking his father, and laying the matter before him, inveighing against Hector with great bitterness.
“So he knocked you down, did he, Guy?” asked Allan Roscoe, thoughtfully.
“Yes; he took me unawares, or he couldn’t have done it,” answered Guy, a little ashamed at the avowal.
“What did you do?”
“I—I told him he should suffer for it.”
“Why did he attack you?”
“It was on account of something I said.”