Presently they half carried Tom back to the locker room and helped him into his clothes, and then, Roy and Harry in attendance, Steve conveyed him back to Billings and laid him on his bed, a very weak but now quite cheerful Tom.
"He nearly drowned me, didn't he ?" he asked with a grin.

"But I choked him good, you bet! Bet you his old neck will be sore for a week, fellows!" "You want to keep away from him for awhile," said Harry with a direful shake of his head.

"He's a mean chap when he's mad." "Huh!" grunted Tom.

"So'm I!".