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"Sam, can you do better? Do you want to go back on the job?" asked Ben Badger. "No," replied the Gridley captain. "It's been tough on us, but you've done everything that I could have done. I'm satisfied, and I believe the coach is." "We'll ask him," proposed Badger. Morton was hurrying toward his boys. The coach's face was impassive.
Junius Gridley, and asking him to acquaint you with the contents of the letter, and the circumstances under which I received it?" "It seems an absurd thing to do," he said, "but I will if you like. What shall I say?" and he sat down at his desk to write the letter. It was written in less than five minutes. It simply asked for the desired information, and requested an immediate reply.
"I expected it," replied Dick, sitting down, inside the spire top. "What are you doing?" demanded the real estate man. "Taking off my shoes," Dick replied coolly. "Do you really mean to make the attempt?" "You don't think a Gridley boy would back out at this late moment?" queried Dick, in surprise. "Ye couldn't stop these younkers, now, by force," chuckled the janitor.
In the next play, Dave had the ball, on a short pass, but with Dick dashing along close to his side, and Hudson on the other flank. Before Darrin went down on the ball it had been carried to Filmore's thirty-yard line. Then it went beyond the twenty-five-yard line, and Gridley still carried the pigskin.
Thirty-six hours afterward Gridley arrived, and an afternoon mass meeting was held in the Opera House, and the auction began. But the sack had come sooner than it was expected; the people were not thoroughly aroused, and the sale dragged. At nightfall only five thousand dollars had been secured, and there was a crestfallen feeling in the community.
"I can't say about that," Reade replied seriously, "but they're the only Grammar School fellows in Gridley that have baseball uniforms, and I understand that they're the chestiest lot of young fellows that any one ever saw." "I'll consider the North Grammar boys later, then," nodded Mr. Brown, smiling.
"I think you can keep a secret, Greg," replied his old Gridley chum, looking quizzically at Holmes. "Greg, I'm too awfully lonesome to trust myself at the hop tonight. "Eh? Why, old ramrod, the hop ought to be the very place to lose that lonesome feeling." "Just what I'm afraid of," responded Prescott. "You -eh -huh! You're talking riddles now. "Greg, a cadet can't marry.
The trial that ensued has been described by John Adams, an eye witness of the whole proceedings. He gives in his works a description of the conduct of the case as it was presented for and against the crown, and also notes of Otis's argument. After the pleas were presented and other preliminary matters arranged, Mr. Gridley addressed the court in support of the government's position.
"Open a case!" he roared. At ten o'clock, when they were still at table and reaching a state of such mutual appreciation that soon they would be calling each other by their first names, Gridley brought in a written message he had taken from the telephone. It was a long-distance call from Yonkers, sent by James, the faithful chauffeur. Fred read it aloud.
"Harry is very close about his affairs," said Graeme, with a little vexation. "Mrs Gridley gave us that among other pieces of news, to-day. I am not sure that I did not deny it, decidedly. It is rather awkward when all the town knows of our affairs, before we know them ourselves." "Awkward, indeed!" said Arthur, laughing.
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