"No, but you are responsible for trespassin' on my grounds."
"I would do it again if I saw you trying to flog a defenceless boy," said Robert, independently.
"You would, hey?" sneered Tarbox. "Well, now, you may change your opinion on that subject before we part company."
"Come, Rob, let's be going," said Charlie Davis, who didn't find this conversation interesting.
"You can go," said Tarbox; "I hav'nt anything ag'inst you; but this boy's got to stay."
"What for?" asked Charlie.
"What for? He'll find out what for."
"If you touch him, I'll send Anak after you," said Charlie.
"You will, hey? So you are impudent, too. Well, I'll have to give you a lesson, too."