So, Ripley, you're answerable to Prescott's friends.

I'll tell you what you can do.

There are five of us.
You can take any one of us that you prefer for the first bout.
When you've thrashed him, you can call for the next, and so on.
But you've got to go through the five of us in turn.

If you don't, I'll call you a coward from now on.

You're bigger than any of us." "See here, Cub Darrin," raged Ripley, starting forward, his face aflame, "I don't allow any freshman to talk that way to me.