"I want to see him taken down.

He has been a leader long enough." "Oh, I will manage to win some of his glory away from him before the spring campaign opens," said Rains, confidently.

"Don't you worry about that; but," he added, swiftly, "don't repeat my words to anybody.
I am not going to boast, but I am going to do something.

That's the proper way." "Sure," nodded Bascomb.

"I guess you can do it, too." In his heart, however, Bascomb did not feel at all sure that Rains would prove the victor in the jumping contest.
"Merriwell is the hardest fellow to beat that I ever saw," he told himself.