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190 RAINBOW VALLEYGlen school boys. It was catch-as-catch can, and getyour blows in anyhow. Walter fought with a savagefury and a joy in the struggle against which Dan couldnot hold his ground. It was all over very speedily.Walter had no clear consciousness of what he wasdoing until suddenlythe red mist cleared from hissight and he found himself kneeling on the body of theprostrate Dan whose nose oh, horror ! was spoutingblood."Have you had enough ?" demanded Walter throughhis clenched teeth.Dan sulkily admitted that he had."My"No."mother doesn't write lies ?""Faith Meredith isn't a pig-girl?""No.""Nor a rooster-girl?""No.""And I'm not a coward?""No."Walter had intended to ask, "And you are a liar?"but pity intervened and he did not humiliate Dan further.Besides, that blood was so horrible."You can go, then," he said contemptuously.There was a loud clapping from the boys who wereperched on the rail fence, but some of the girls werecrying. They were frightened. They had seen schoolboyfights before, but nothing like Walter as he hadgrappled with Dan. There had been something terrify-