Let him come! I think I will have an officer on hand--he shall be arrested the moment he shows himself.

That's right--that's proper.

Hum! ha! Assaulted a cadet of Fardale Academy, did he?
Attempted to rob a student at this school, did he?
Well, he shall be duly and properly punished--yes, sir." The professor had worked himself up into a state of considerable excitement, seeming to have forgotten his headache for the time.

He got upon his feet and went tramping about the room in his slippers, the heels of which had been trodden down.

He perched his nose-glasses far down on his pointed proboscis, and glared over them in a way he had when he was endeavoring to appear very impressive before a class.
Under other circumstances Frank might have smiled at the figure cut by the excited old man, but he was now far too angry himself to note what was ludicrous.
"Take care of that ring, young man," advised the professor--"take the best of care of it.