with a white silk handkerchief. The proprietor bustle

This matter must be settled between us-I could see that plain

and lightning!" panted Rattleton. "He

t expect

ght with rapiers,

l, you're

nk y

He was making that talk to dri

gratulate himself

enough, and still you act as if you actua

with any kind of w

son came

Diamond has chosen me as his second once more, and so I can't refuse to serve him

Arrange the time and place wi

lustrated paper, and seemed dee

ew Rattle

g with importance, "demands that

rt of business. It is outrageous! If one of them sh

some excuse

ne of them sho

ything as serious

stigation, and expulsion and disgrace,

d tell Mr. Merriwell to apologize here and no

Merriwell and th

rsely. "We'll have to arrange this

eins of a youth. It is then that he will do many wild and reckless things-thin

ct and the respect of his comrades he must meet Diamond a

he had been the champion of the school, and he had taken some lessons while traveling. He had thoroughly studied the t

he could repeated

at less cautious than he naturally would have been and so he tru

ncy Frank knew anything of fencing, and he thought Merriwell wou

ed not to seriously wo

and the freshmen who were to witness it slipped o

lads, with their coats and vests off and their slee

tlemen!" ca

made

gu

tion was

command that s

sible, had seen something they never beheld before. They saw two beardle

l was a swordsman of astonishing skill. He had expected to toy with the Northerne

f relief came ove

erry is a cooler at it! I b

get the best of him at everything? He fought savagely, and Ditson turned white as a

en!" huskily whispered Ditson. "What if

Diamond and a cry of surprise

isting movement of his wrist, had torn

or, and Merriwell stepped back, wi

de a catlike spring and snatc

. "The end is not yet! I'll

and then the fight was on

where Frank could have run him through. But Merriwell w

inning to think of intervening, wh

there came a heavy

en on guard, ran in fr

Somebody has given

alled a freshma

hem to a back window, out

ust as he touched the ground somebody

voice, which he recognized as

o break away,

aught hold of him, and with wonderful st

ank Merriwell's

er, and in a short while

s taking place, but some of the sophs. At the time he turned back to rescue Diamond,

known that he had twice disarmed the Virginian in a duel with rapiers-or a "

sophomores, was awaiting an