"
"You -- you saucy minx!" he snarled and leaping around the table
caught her by the wrist again. "I'll tame you before I am done
with you, mark my words! If you dare to talk to your mother again
-- Hullo, who is this?"
"Dick Rover!" cried Dora in amazement and in delight.
For Dick had suddenly thrown up the window sash, which was
unlocked, and leaped straight into the sitting room.
"Let her go, Josiah Crabtree!" ordered the young cadet. "Don't
you dare to strike her, or I'll knock you flat!"
"One of the Rover boys!" muttered the ex-teacher. "What business
have you here at this hour of the evening? Have you run away from
the Hall?"
"Since you have been discharged, I do not feel called upon to
answer your question," answered Dick. "But you must let Dora
alone, or there will be a broken head around here, I can tell you
that!"
At Dick's plain words Josiah Crabtree greatly paled. He had
dropped the girl's wrist and now he fell back several steps.
"I was not harming the girl, only trying to reason with her."
"Oh, I know you well enough. I've heard you were the most
pigheaded teacher they ever had at Putnam Hall," rejoined Dick
warmly.
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