I do n't mind what he says -- I would n't condescend to mind the like of HIM . '' `` He insulted you and he insulted my mother , '' said Walter , with the same deadly calm . `` Tonight after school , Dan . '' `` I 've got to go right home from school to pick taters after the harrows , dad says , '' answered Dan sulkily . `` But to-morrow night 'll do . '' `` All right -- here to-morrow night , '' agreed Walter . `` And I 'll smash your sissy-face for you , '' promised Dan . Walter shuddered -- not so much from fear of the threat as from repulsion over the ugliness and vulgarity of it . But he held his head high and marched into school . Faith followed in a conflict of emotions . She hated to think of Walter fighting that little sneak , but oh , he had been splendid ! And he was going to fight for HER -- Faith Meredith -- to punish her insulter ! Of course he would win -- such eyes spelled victory . Faith 's confidence in her champion had dimmed a little by evening , however . Walter had seemed so very quiet and dull the rest of the day in school . `` If it were only Jem , '' she sighed to Una , as they sat on Hezekiah Pollock 's tombstone in the graveyard . `` HE is such a fighter -- he could finish Dan off in no time . But Walter does n't know much about fighting . '' `` I 'm so afraid he 'll be hurt , '' sighed Una , who hated fighting and could n't understand the subtle , secret exultation she divined in Faith . `` He ought n't to be , '' said Faith uncomfortably .
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