"I'll be even with you yet, see if I don't."
"Hurrah for the stranger!" shouted the boys enthusiastically, as they crowded around our hero.
"Boys," said Tony, modestly, "I'm much obliged to you for your congratulations. Was it a fair fight?"
"Yes, yes."
"Then it's all right. Don't say anything to him about it. He feels bad, as I should do in his place. I haven't any ill will toward him, and I hope he hasn't toward me."
This speech made Tony a still greater favorite and the boys, making a rush, took him on their shoulders, and bore him in triumph to the inn. Poor Sam slunk home, suffering keener mortification than he had ever before experienced in his life.
CHAPTER XVI. RUDOLPH ESCAPES AND SEES AN ADVERTISEMENT.
Leaving Tony for a short time, we must return to Rudolph, whom we left in charge of a self-constituted body of police on his way to the station-house.