"Please, Birket, I've been licked already." "Stand up on that form, and tell all the fellows you apologise for doing a cowardly action and disgracing Templeton." Culver promptly obeyed, and repeated the apology word for word.
There were loud cries for Gosse at this point, and Birket yielded to the popular demand, and ordered the ex-secretary to go through the same ceremony.

Which the ex-secretary cheerfully did.
"Now then," said the Fifth-form boy, turning again to Culver, "shake hands with Richardson and make it up.

You've been licked, so there's nothing left to settle." Culver may have secretly differed from Birket on this point, but he kept his secret to himself and held out his hand.

Dick took it, and gave it an honest shake.

It is one of the luxuries victors enjoy, to shake the proffered hand of the vanquished, and Dick enjoyed it greatly.
"It's all made up now," said Birket, addressing the Den, "and there'd better be no more row about it, or you'll have one of the Sixth down on you, and he won't let you off as easy as I have, I can tell you." But although the fight was over, and the breach of the peace was healed, the consequences of the fray were of much longer duration.
Their effect on Dick was not, on the whole, beneficial to that doughty young warrior.