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"A blue-book? No, sir." "Oh! That is strange, Edwards. You are certain you didn't take down a blue-book of your own and bring it back again?" "Absolutely sure, sir." "But er someone saw you leave my room, Edwards, with a blue-book in your hand." Steve flushed and his voice held an angry tremor as he answered: "Someone was mistaken, Mr. Daley, whoever he was.
He was about to drop back again to his cozy bed when he heard the man utter an exclamation of satisfaction. He rubbed his hands and braced up, and as a new figure turned from the road spoke in a cautious but distinct tone. "That you, Murdock?" "It's me, sure enough, Daley," came the reply. "S sh don't use my name here. You know " "All right.
Daley hoped the boys would get on swimmingly and become very fond of Brimfield. "I ah I want you to feel that I am ready and anxious to help you at any time, fellows. I ah want you to look on me as ah as a big brother and come to me in your ah perplexities and troubles, should you have any, and of course there are bound to be ah little worries at first.
Say," projected Andy, "I'm sorry to interrupt the performance, but it's a matter of life or death." "Eh?" uttered Thacher in a puzzled way. "What's up?" "Do you know a man named Murdock?" "Ring man, fired last week. Yes. What of it?" "Do you know a man named Daley?" "Fired, too for drinking. I took his place on this team." "They hate you. They have plotted to disable you.
"Who is Horace!" asked Clint dejectedly. "Mr. Daley; modern languages; you have him in French. Well, there was a notice stuck on the wall across the place. It was in Greek and I couldn't make anything out of it at all and I asked Horace what it said. Of course he just read it right off, with a mere passing glance; did he not? Yes, he did not!
It's a lie that you swiped Upton's blue-book with his composition in it, I suppose. It's a lie that you were going to use it until Daley went up to your room and found it, I dare say. It's " "Yes, it is a lie, and you know it, Sawyer," flamed Steve. "If you tell any story like that around " "I'll tell what I please, kid, and you can't stop me."
"To get even with him? He has er done something, then, to er annoy you?" "Yes, sir. That is, well I don't like him." Mr. Daley observed Steve dubiously. At last, "I wish I could believe that explanation, Edwards," he said. "As inexcusable as such er such an action would be, it would still be preferable to to what I am forced to suspect. But the whole thing is beyond me."
Daley was plainly eager to help, but, as usual, he was embarrassed and nervous, and Steve, who had taken a mild dislike to him, resented his interference. "The stuff's too hard," he said in answer to Mr. Daley's inquiries. "Look at the lesson we had to-day, sir; all that and this, over to here; sight reading, too. And two compositions so far this week!
And in that week he demonstrated to the instructor's satisfaction that he was up with the class in French. I think Mr. Daley was very willing to be convinced and that he met Steve quite half-way. Latin was still a bugaboo to Steve, but it, too, was getting easier. On the whole, that schedule, backed by a grim determination, was making good. Meanwhile football pursued its relentless course.
"Twenty dollars?" "Yes. Tell me how you fixed it." "Why," answered Murdock with a cruel laugh, "you was laid off as one of the Benares Brothers up at the show on account of drinking, wasn't you?" Daley moodily nodded his head. "They put on Thacher in your place. You and him are probably the only two men in the profession who can do the somersault trapeze act with old Benares.
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