"I just heard him tell Rattleton that he could have knocked the stuffing out of you in less than a quarter of a minute.

He says you'll never dare face him again." "Oh, he does! oh, he does!" came huskily from Diamond's lips.

"Well, we'll see about that--we'll see!" With Ditson's aid he got upon his feet.

Then his breath and his strength seemed to come to him in a twinkling.

With a backward snap of his arm he flung his second away.