It was by somebody who knows me far too well.

That is why I feel that my escape from being a scoundrel was a narrow one." Had he not seen that Bart was so serious and thoroughly in earnest, Frank must have smiled.
"Give us the particulars," he urged.

"What did you do when you were taken for a thief ?" "Knocked the cad down!" snarled Bart, smashing his clinched right hand into the open palm of his left.
"That was very proper," assured Merriwell.

"You did nicely, my son." "But I do not feel any the less humiliated.

If I had not given him reason to approach me in such a manner, he would not have ventured." Then Bart related the particulars of his adventure with Snell.
"So, so!" muttered Frank.