“Yeaaaaa! Yeaaaa!” was returned in full chorus which half jeered at the boy, half applauded his sentiments.
“Bully for you, Pinch!” shouted Teddy. “You stick up for your friend, don’t you?”
“Friend or no friend,” answered Finch, with unwonted boldness, “it was a roast. He was cheated out of it.”
“Guess he was,” agreed another boy. “How’d it come about, d’ye know?”
“Yes, I know,” Finch answered, “but I’m not saying.”
“Oh, inside information, eh?”
“If you want to call it that.”
“Who from—Tony Deering?”
Finch turned to his questioner with a vicious snarl. “No, it wasn’t from Tony Deering. He don’t care. It doesn’t make any difference to him, but it makes a lot of difference to the school.”
“Well, who cooked his goose?”