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 it very keenly; and consequently when Tom Bigden paddled up alongside and told him that he intended to get even with him some way for the stand he had taken, Joe was in just the right humor to give him as good as he sent.

"Joe Wayring, you have made an enemy of me by this day's work," said Tom, in a threatening tone.

"By telling the truth in regard to your fouling of Frank Noble?" exclaimed Joe. "I don't care if I have. I saw the whole proceeding, and I know that you meant to do it. I warned you that any boy who could so far forget himself as to deliberately interfere with another, would be forever ruled out of the club's races, and you will find that I knew what I was talking about."

"You might as well expel me and be done with it?" exclaimed Tom, angrily. "What's the use of my belonging to the club if I am not allowed to take part in its contests? Joe Wayring, there's no honor about you. You have led me to believe that you were my friend, and then you went back on me the very first chance you got."