picious. This glass looked as if it might contain something else.
"They'd as soon drug me as not," he thought. "For all I know this may be a dose strong enough to make an elephant sick. I don't think I'll drink it, no matter what they do."
"Prisoner, drink!" was the cry.
"Thanks, but I am not thirsty," answered Dick, as coolly as he could. "Besides, I had my dose of mud and water a long time ago."
"He must drink!" roared Rockley.
"Get the switches!" ordered Lew Flapp, and from a corner a number of long, heavy switches were brought forth and passed around.
Things began to look serious and it must be confessed that Dick's heart beat fast, for he had no desire to undergo a switching at the hands of such a cold-hearted crowd, who would be sure to lay on the strokes heavily.
"Don't you strike me," said Dick, thinking rapidly. "I'll drink fast enough. But I want to know one thing first."
"Well?"
"What are you going to do with me next?"
"Make you take the antidote for the poison," said Flapp.
"And what is that?"
"Another drink."
