"I'll settle my score with you at my convenience!" Then, as he put more distance between himself and the other Gridley High School boys, Ripley added to himself: "That settlement shall stop at nothing to put Dick Prescott in the dust---where he belongs." "Oh, freshie, but you've coolness and judgment," cried Thompson, approvingly.

"And you've broken one cad's heart today." "I'm sorry if I have," declared Dick, frankly, generously.

"I wouldn't have had any heart in the fight if he hadn't started in to humiliate me.

I wouldn't have cared so much for that, either.
But he started to say something nasty about my parents, and I have as good parents as ever a boy had.

Then I felt I simply _had_ to fit a plug between Ripley's teeth." Fred Ripley had pain in his eyes to help keep him awake that night.