But Hugh, I hope you don't mean to let that skunk profit by his trickery.
Please start off, and beat him out, if it takes a leg." "But I hate to leave you here, 'Just' Smith, much as I'd like to chase after Nick, because now he deserves to be beaten." "Oh! don't bother about me, Hugh.

I'll try and get to the main road, even if I have to _crawl_.

Later on you can come back for me in some sort of rig.

Whew! but I'm as mad as a hatter because I've lost my fine chance, when I was going so strong, with plenty of reserve force held back." Hugh realized that duty called upon him to do as his chum demanded.
It would be a shame if Nick Lang actually profited through such a rank act of treachery toward his fellows of Scranton High.

An individual should be ready to sacrifice his school or its interests to his own personal ambition, and certainly never should it be allowed that he gain his ends through such a dastardly trick as the waylaying of another on the road, and his being assaulted, as "Just" Smith had been.
"All right, I'll do it, then!" Hugh exclaimed, with a look of sudden determination.