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"The discharged employee, in the case you are supposing, might hold himself justified in shooting at me; but if I should shoot back and happen to kill him, it would be murder. We've got to stand for something, Mr. Gridley, you and I who know the difference between civilization and savagery." Gridley's strong teeth came together with a little snap.
Gridley's artillery at Lighthouse Point had been doing its best, dropping bombshells with such precision into the Island Battery that the French soldiers were sometimes seen running into the sea to escape the explosions. Many of the Island guns were dismounted, and the place was fast becoming untenable.
It was noised about through the parish that the minister was sick, and the doctor recommended a European trip. "It's ridikilus," was Deacon Gridley's comment. "I work harder than the minister, and I never had to go to Europe. It's just because it's fashionable." "Mr. Thornton is looking pale and haggard," said Mrs. Gridley. "What if he is? He ought to work outdoors like me.
Before Barnes and his followers could comprehend, another touchdown had been scored by the visitors. And then came the kick for goal, and it was a splendid success. The kick came just at the end of the second half. That kick won the game for Dick's sorely pressed team. Gridley's score, won by a cleanly played game against bruisers, stood at twelve to eight!
Drake, "we'll consider all this rumpus done with. Discipline reigns and Gridley's good name must be preserved!" This brought a cheer from many, for Mr. Drake was genuinely respected by the boys as a good and fair-minded man. Such men as Drake, Morton or Luce could lead these warm-hearted boys anywhere. Stepping quickly back to the platform, Drake sounded the bell.
"This assures me that every one of you has kept in the strictest training. It will show as soon as you begin to meet Gridley's opponents in the field. "Faithful observance of all training rules bespeaks a good state of discipline. In all sports, and in team sports especially, discipline is our very foundation stone. Every man must sacrifice himself and his feelings for the good of the team.
It was his one concession to appetite, and he made it grudgingly. "A college man, I suppose," he commented. "Otherwise Ford wouldn't be backing him." "Oh, yes, I guess it's safe to count on that." "And a man who will carry out the Ford policy?" Gridley's eyes smiled, but lower down on his face the smile became a cynical baring of the strong teeth.
It was perhaps fortunate that there was no special significance to Myrtle in the name of Clement Lindsay. Since the adventure which had brought these two young persons together, and, after coming so near a disaster, had ended in a mere humiliation and disappointment, and but for Master Gridley's discreet kindness might have led to foolish scandal, Myrtle had never referred to it in any way.
They went away together, and Arthur and Graeme followed, and so it happened that Graeme had lost sight of her sister; when she saw something that brought some of Mrs Gridley's words unpleasantly to her mind.
Gridley's H.S. football eleven had played, in the past four years, forty-nine games with other high school teams, and had lost but two of these games. The Gridley baseball nine had played fifty-four games with other high school teams in the same period, and had met defeat but three times in the four years.
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