_I_ won't row if he does," said Ashley.
"And the worst of it is they'll try to make out now they would have won in any case.

I heard one of them say so myself this very afternoon." "Let them say what they like," said Ashley.

"Nobody will believe them." Perhaps these hot-headed heroes, had they been able to overhear a conversation that was going on at that very time in the captain's study, would have discovered that at any rate it was not the immediate intention of the schoolhouse to insist that the victory was theirs.
Riddell had recovered somewhat from his rough handling that afternoon, but he looked pale and dejected as, along with his friend Fairbairn, he sat and discussed for the twentieth time the event of the day.
"It's quite evident we must offer them a fresh race," said he.
"Yes, I think so," said Fairbairn.

"It's hard lines, for I expect it won't be easy to get our men up to the mark again after they are once run down." "We can't help that," said Riddell.

"It's the least we can do." "Of course.