But maiming will be the keener revenge.

All his life hereafter Prescott will be thinking what might have been if he hadn't met me this night! Shall I leap on him when he's coming back from the hotel, after the graduation ball?
No; for he'd have Holmes with him then.

I'll send in word and call him out from the ball, with a message that an old schoolmate wants to see him on something most urgent.

I'll have Prescott to myself, and all I need is a few seconds.

I'm half as powerful again as Prescott is!" Jordan was not at all lacking in a certain type of ferocious brute courage.