"I don't want you to tell me what I mean." "I wasn't, I was telling the others," said Fullerton.

"But I agree with you.

If we have another election and get beaten, we shall be far worse off than if we were able to take heaven and earth to witness we had been wronged and were too noble to seek revenge." If Fullerton could have translated Cicero as well as he translated Clapperton, what a good Classic he would have been! "We'd better decline the new election at once," said Brinkman; "it concerns me more than anybody else; and I agree with Clapperton." "Why ever not have the new election ?" said Dangle.

"We're bound to get our man in." "Better decline it first," said Clapperton.

"They'll be glad enough not to let it go to a trial, I expect." "Hurrah for injured innocence," said Fullerton; "it's the best paying thing I know." The result of this conference was, that Dangle went across after school next morning to the captain's study where Fisher and Ranger happened to be calling at the same time.
"Look here, Yorke," said the secretary, adopting his most civil tones, "you quite misunderstood my letter to Fisher major.