In this emergency one of the seniors was selected to teach this youthful savage his proper position.

A challenge was given, and accepted by Clarence with a feverish alacrity that surprised himself as much as his adversary.

This was a youth of eighteen, his superior in size and skill.
The first blow bathed Clarence's face in his own blood.

But the sanguinary chrism, to the alarm of the spectators, effected an instantaneous and unhallowed change in the boy.

Instantly closing with his adversary, he sprang at his throat like an animal, and locking his arm around his neck began to strangle him.