[“Weren’t you afraid?” Redtop asked when the first, busy part of the meal was over]
[“Stay where you are till I speak”]
[“What do you mean, Billy Boy, by refusing to speak to me?”]
[“Give her to me; I am fresh,” he said, attempting to take Mrs. Smith from Billy’s arms]
BILLY TO-MORROW STANDS THE TEST
CHAPTER I
EXCITEMENT IN THE FIFTH AVENUE HIGH
IT was a gray afternoon, late in April and cold enough for March, when Billy Bennett, going out of the building to the school grounds, detected a new note in the usual hubbub. There were a hundred or more boys gathered in one corner and listening to some one who was speaking.