That other person was Donald Pike, who looked down now on the man he felt instinctively to be his mortal foe with a little shiver of dread.

More than once Pike had regretted making that revelation to Fairfax Lee, for the chances that discovery would come and that Badger would fiercely summon him to answer, seemed very great, when he gave himself time to reflect.

And he feared Badger.
All might have gone well on this evening with Pike, however, if his fear of discovery had not made him try to climb farther up the tree.

The Kansan heard the low scraping sound, in spite of the din in the campus, and glanced upward, and when he did so he saw and recognized the man he was looking for.

A calcium-light was sending its rays through the higher branches, and Pike's white, scared face was as plainly revealed to Badger as if the two were facing each other in a lighted room.
The hate which Badger had been nursing swelled to the point of bursting.
He forgot the search for "fruit," in which he had been interested, seeing only the enemy whom he had sworn to whip as soon as they met.
As yet they had not met; but Badger, blinded by his intense anger, decided that the meeting should come without delay, even if the place was a tree-top; and he began to climb up the trunk and boughs of the tree toward Donald.