That way we can't know defeat." "Unless, finally, we ride to our deaths," laughed Tom.
"What of it ?" challenged Dick.

"That wouldn't be defeat.

The man who rides to death in the search for victory has won.

He has carried the winning spirit with him to the very finish.

Or else the history we've been studying at school is all a mess of lies." "There's a lot in that idea," nodded Dave thoughtfully.
"There's more in it every time that you think of it," Dick contended.
Thus Dick was starting, in Dick & Co., the never-give-up spirit which made them almost invincible later as High School boys.
Wednesday and Thursday were days filled with eagerness for the Central Grammar boys.