"I'll save you in your teeth." "Not ?" cried Dick.

"I'll make you!" "Try it," said the other.
They stood, looking in each other's eyes, each ready for a spring.

Then Dick leaped; and though Matcham turned instantly and fled, in two bounds he was over-taken, the windac was twisted from his grasp, he was thrown roughly to the ground, and Dick stood across him, flushed and menacing, with doubled fist.

Matcham lay where he had fallen, with his face in the grass, not thinking of resistance.
Dick bent his bow.
"I'll teach you!" he cried, fiercely.

"Oath or no oath, ye may go hang for me!" And he turned and began to run.