“You can’t make me a prisoner,” said the young book agent, and tried to back out with his bicycle.

“THEY OVERTURNED BOTH FRANK AND HIS WHEEL.”–[P. 163.]

“Can’t we, though?” came from the lad who had not yet spoken. “Don’t you try to run. If you do, you’ll get a taste of this.” And he brandished his club.

“We’re goin’ to give you a good lickin’!” came from the boy with the turned jacket.

“Oh, so it’s you!” ejaculated Frank, for he now placed the speaker as the stage-struck farm boy.

“You don’t know me,” said the boy in quick alarm.

“Yes, I do.”

“You don’t.”

“You’re the boy that wanted to become an actor.”