He walked up and down his room for a long time, trying to make up his mind what he should do, and, when he was called to breakfast, he had decided upon a plan of operations, which promised to make Archie and his friends a great deal of trouble.
"I'll be revenged upon the whole lot of them at once," said Arthur, to himself.

"Upon Johnny Harris, for calling me a coward; upon Archie Winters, for writing me that note--for I know he did it, although Johnny's name does come last--and upon Frank Nelson, for being a friend to those fellows, and for being so stuck up.

He scarcely spoke to me yesterday, and I won't stand such treatment from any boy.

I'll teach these backwoodsmen to insult a gentleman!" "Well, Arthur," said Mr.Vane, as the boy seated himself at the table, "you must have looked through a very badly-frightened pair of eyes, to make a grizzly bear out of a wolf." "Who told you it was a wolf ?" asked Arthur, gruffly.
"One of Mr.Winters's herdsmen--Dick Lewis, I believe, they call him.

He came over this morning to bring your weapons and hat." Dick despised a coward quite as much as he admired a boy of spirit and courage, and it is certain that the story, as he had heard it from Frank and Archie, lost nothing in passing through his hands.