Then added, threateningly: "Don't you dare to print a word about this affair!" Dick looked quietly at young Dodge.
"Did you hear me ?" demanded Bert.
"Yes." "Then what's your answer ?" "That I heard you, Bert." "You young puppy!" cried Dodge, advancing threateningly.

"Don't you address me familiarly." "I don't care anything about addressing you at all," retorted Prescott, flushing slightly under the insult.

"At present I can make allowances for you, for I fully understand how anxious you are.

But that is no real excuse for insulting me." "Are you going to heed me when I tell you to print nothing about my father's disappearance ?" insisted young Dodge.
"That is something over which you really have no control," Dick replied slowly, though not offensively.

"I take all my orders from my employers." "You young mucker!" cried Bert, in exasperation.