"When will your committee be ready ?" "We're ready now," answered Hi.

"Come over here and we'll talk about it." Hi leaned against the fence on his own side of the street, determined not to concede anything to the Central Grammar boys.
"Have you two been regularly appointed as a committee ?" asked Prescott.
"We don't have to be," Hi answered indifferently.

"We know what we're talking about." "You'll have to be regularly appointed by your school before we'll talk with you," Dick retorted.
"You're afraid to meet us in a swimming match," Hi jeered.
"So afraid," Prescott answered, "that we've appointed a committee regularly; but you fellows, who have been doing all the talking, aren't willing to get together and elect a regular committee to represent your school." "You're afraid, I tell you," sneered Hi, while Bill Rodgers grinned.
"No; we're ready to arrange the match when your school sends a regular committee." "Come on over here and talk it over, if you're not afraid," urged Hi Martin.
"We can't talk it over with you, as you've admitted that you don't represent your school." "Well, then, we do represent it," claimed Hi.
"That statement comes too late.

Hi, we'll meet you at this same place at half past four to-morrow afternoon.

If you fail to show up it will be all off.