Part 2 (1/2)
”And, yes, there is Dutz, who filled my mouth with snow,” cried Spud.
”Come on!”
Sam was already on the run, and, coming to the turn in the road, he let fly several s...o...b..a.l.l.s.
”Here! Here! What do you mean by such actions?” came suddenly from behind some brushwood which lined the roadway and then, as the students advanced still further, they were surprised to find themselves confronted by a tall man wearing a heavy, fur-lined overcoat. He had likewise been wearing a beaver hat, but the tile now lay in the snow.
”Belright Fogg!” exclaimed Sam in dismay. ”That lawyer who tried to get the best of us! And I thought he was one of the students!”
”Ha! so it is you,” snarled the man in the fur overcoat harshly. ”What do you mean, Rover, by attacking me in this fas.h.i.+on?”
CHAPTER II
SOMETHING ABOUT THE ROVER BOYS
”Say! that isn't one of the students.”
”Not much! Why, that's the lawyer who used to do business for the railroad company--the man the Rovers had so much trouble with!”
”Who knocked his hat off?”
”I don't know--Sam Rover, I guess.”
Such were some of the remarks made as a number of the juniors and seniors began to congregate around Sam and Mr. Belright Fogg. All of the students could readily see that the lawyer was very much put out over what had occurred.
”I say, Rover, what do you mean by attacking me in this fas.h.i.+on?”
repeated Belright Fogg, with a savage look at the youth before him.
”If I knocked your hat off, Mr. Fogg, I am sorry for it,” answered Sam, as soon as he could recover from his surprise.
”Knocked my hat off?” roared the lawyer. ”You hit me a hard one on the head; that is what you did!”
”Let me see if you are hurt,” put in Stanley, stepping forward. ”Where did the s...o...b..ll hit you?”
”You keep your hands off me,” returned Belright Fogg. ”I've a good mind to have the law on such loafers as you.”
”We are not loafers, Mr. Fogg,” answered Sam, the color coming quickly to his face. ”We were having our annual s...o...b..lling contest, and we did not know that any outsider was on this back road. If I hit you and hurt you I am very sorry for it.”
”Humph! I think you will be sorry for it if I bring a suit for damages,”
muttered the lawyer. ”I don't know why Dr. Wallington permits such rowdyism.”
”This isn't rowdyism, nor are we loafers,” put in Stanley, somewhat sharply. ”You seem to forget, Mr. Fogg, that this road runs through the property belonging to Brill College, and we have a perfect right to hold our s...o...b..lling contest here. If you want to report the matter to Dr.
Wall----”
”Bah! I know you students, and I wouldn't expect any sympathy from your teacher. He's too afraid of losing any of his students.” Belright Fogg s.n.a.t.c.hed his beaver hat from the hands of Spud, who had picked it up.
”I'll settle with you for this later, Rover,” he added, and then turned on his heel and hurried down the road.
”I wonder what brought him on this back road on foot?” observed Bob.