The Challenge

Written by Unknown

Published in Hotspur #138, 04/18/1936.
Alan Ross has a run-in with the school bully, James Huckster, and they agree to meet off-campus for a fight. Ross is kept from the rendezvous by an urgent message to decrypt so his troubles with the bullies intensifies. Worse yet, one of the Masters has confined him to the Punishment Room which means getting the decoded message where it belongs gets complicated.