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What could she answer, if she had plotted with this "dreadful man" against a young and innocent girl, to deliver her over into his hands, at the risk of all her earthly hopes and happiness? Master Gridley waited long and patiently for any answer she might have the force to make. As she made none, he took upon himself to settle the whole matter without further torture of his helpless victim.
"A merchant over in Gridley, a rather decent chap, too, has been making up to Laura pretty briskly, I hear by way of home news," Greg continued. "Does the yardstick general win out?" demanded Dan. "From all the news, I'm half afraid he does." "How does Dick take that?" Dan was eager to know. "I can't tell you," Greg responded solemnly, "for I have never ventured on that topic with old ramrod.
As Prescott passed inside the car he was greeted by a pleasant-faced, well-dressed young man. It was Mr. Luce, one of the sub-masters of Gridley High School. Dick dropped into a seat beside him. "Been tramping a bit, Prescott?" inquired the sub-master. "No, sir; I've been over here on a little matter of business, but I expect to start, in a day or two, on a few weeks of tramping."
Quayle, the British Pluck Library had been written by many hands and had included the adventures of many heroes: but in Gridley Quayle the proprietors held that the ideal had been reached, and Ashe received a commission to conduct the entire British Pluck Library monthly himself. On the meager salary paid him for these labors he had been supporting himself ever since.
"Thank you," Prescott acknowledged, gratefully. Then, drawing a paper from his pocket, he read as follows: "'Gridley is justly proud of its public spirit, and rejoices in having the best in several lines. Few if any cities in the United States possess a High School football team that can down the eleven from Gridley H.S. We are proud of our High School, and as proud of its reputation in athletics.
Andy Bradford has been giving me an idea of how the trainmen stand, and he says there is a good deal of strike talk. Williams adds a word about the shop force: he says that Gridley's men are not saying anything, but they'll be likely to go out in a body unless Gridley wakes up at the last minute and takes a club to them."
Before he left the house, Mr. Gridley repeated the statement is the most precise manner, some miles down the river upset and nearly drowned rescued almost dead brought to and cared for by kind women in the house where he, Byles Gridley, found her. These were the facts, and nothing more than this was to be told at present.
The whole population men, women and children, Chinamen and Indians, were massed in the main street, all the flags in town were at the mast head, and the blare of the bands was drowned in cheers. Gridley stood up and asked who would make the first bid for the National Sanitary Flour Sack. Gen. W. said: "The Yellow Jacket silver mining company offers a thousand dollars, coin!"
Anyone can ride that knows enough to get into a saddle and stick there," observed the Colorado boy dryly. Readers of the "Grammar School Boys Series" and of the "High School Boys Series", have already recognized in Tom Reade and Harry Hazelton two famous schoolboy athletes. Back in old Gridley there had once been a schoolboy crowd of six, known as Dick & Co.
"Wouldn't Dick and Dave and the rest of their crowd enjoy this lake if they were here with their canoe?" asked Laura Bentley. "Yes," agreed Belle Meade. "And very likely they'd win some more laurels for Gridley High School, too. Preston High School has a six-paddle canoe here now, and Trentville High School will send a canoe crew here in a few days.
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