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Trenholm, Grayson, Drayne and Hudson were the four best football men of the Bayliss-Dodge faction. Now that they were to play with the High School eleven all concerned felt wholly relieved. As the young men were leaving the gym. that afternoon Coach Morton found a chance to grip Dick's arm and to whisper lightly in his ear: "Thank you, Prescott." "For what, Mr. Morton."
"Explain this all over again, to us, won't you?" shouted the chief, pushing open the door of the junk shop and striding in, backed by the light and the revolver of Officer Delmar. "What?" screamed Phin Drayne, then sank to his knees in the extremity of his terror. "Don't either of you try to put up any fight," warned the chief. "Delmar, here are my handcuffs to put with your own.
That's what all of you are saying to yourselves!" cried Drayne angrily. "For some reason you idiots seem to think I'm in no shape today. Hang it, I'm sorry I agreed to play. For two cents I wouldn't play." "Drayne can be bought off cheaply, can't he?" remarked one of the fellows. The last speaker did not intend that his voice should reach Drayne, but it did.
But alert Dave Darrin rushed in and snatched a clever advantage out of momentary confusion. After that there was no more confusion. Gridley took the game by a single touchdown, failing in the subsequent kick for goal. Five minutes later time expired. Feeling doubly contemptible now, and sick at heart, Phin Drayne crawled weakly down from the grand stand.
There was silence, while the copies passed from hand to hand, Drayne losing color at this point. "Be brassy!" he whispered to himself. "You'll pull through, Phin, old boy." "I am sorry to say, Mr. Drayne, that the evidence appears to be against you," declared the chairman slowly. "It may, sir," returned the boy, "but it isn't conclusive evidence." "Have you anything more to say, Mr.
Kahn's rear door had been opened with false keys and left ajar. Then Phin Drayne stole back to the junk shop, while Stevens, whose voice could not be recognized over the wire by Dick, sent the message. Next, back to where he could watch the alleyway, hurried Stevens, and hid. Stevens saw Dick Prescott slip into the alleyway, then go inside the store.
"When you employ such methods as these you make a fellow tell on himself!" All his 'brass' was gone now. He looked, indeed, a most pitiable object as he stood there, his lower jaw drooped and his cheeks twitching. "I think you have said about all, Mr. Drayne, that it is necessary for you to say," interposed the chairman.
"Knocking, are you?" demanded Drayne, coming up behind them. "Nice fellows you are!" "Oh, now, see here, Drayne, no bad blood," urged Wadleigh. He spoke authoritatively, yet coaxingly, too. "Remember, we've got to keep all our energies for one thing today." "Well, I'm mighty glad you two don't play on my end of the line," sneered Drayne, looking at Hazelton and Holmes with undisguised hostility.
"The sneak!" grunted Dave. "I wonder if he's over in that bunch, now." "I'm not even enough interested to wonder," returned Prescott. "He's where he can't do us any harm, anyway." "But, if the Fordham boys put anything over us, I'll bet Drayne has things timed so that the military boys will do a big and noisy lot of boasting." "They will, anyway, if we allow them a chance," answered Dick.
For an instant Phin Drayne stood there as though he would brave out this assertion of authority. Then, seized by another impulse, he turned and made rapidly for a town-bound street car that was heading his way. "What's up?" asked two or three of the fellows of Dick Prescott. Perceiving something out of the usual, they spoke in the same breath.
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