"I'll have you arrested!" shrieked Nahum Sprague, but in spite of his threat he received another dose of the same medicine.
"When you want some more call on us!" said Bill.
As he spoke he flung the whip out into the street, and the two ministers of justice went off laughing.
"If they try to lick you again, kid, come and tell us," Joe called back.
CHAPTER XXXI.
PHILIP FINDS A FRIEND.
When the two unauthorized ministers of justice had departed Oscar and his father looked at each other in anger and stupefaction.
"It's an outrage!" exclaimed Nahum Sprague.
"I'd like to shoot them!" returned Oscar. "I'd like to see them flayed within an inch of their lives."
"So would I. They are the most audacious desperadoes I ever encountered."
"Do you know them, dad?"