"If I'd stuck to that fellow and done him up anyway he wouldn't have been able to carry out this trick.

If he is given any kind of a show he is bound to take advantage of it." Bruce felt like fighting.
"I'm going in there and lick him," he declared.

"I will settle this matter with Merriwell right away." But some of his friends were more cautious.
"It won't do," declared Puss Parker.
"Won't do ?" "No, sir." "Why not ?" "It might be done under cover of a rush, but a single fight between a soph and a fresh under such public conditions would be sure to get them both in trouble." "I don't care a continental! I've stood him just as long as I can! If I can give him a good square licking I'll stand expulsion, should it come to that!" They saw that Browning was too heated to pause for sober thought, and so they gathered close around him and forced him to listen to reason.
It took no small amount of argument to induce the king to give over the idea of going onto the ball field and attacking Merriwell, but he was finally shown the folly of such a course.

However, he vowed over and over that the settlement with Merriwell should come very soon..