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Without knowing just why, she had resented Gridley's attitude; this notwithstanding the master-mechanic's genial affability whenever Lidgerwood and his difficulties were the object of discussion. "They are still refusing to take you seriously?" she said. "I hope you don't mind it too much." "Personally, I don't mind it at all," he assured her which was sufficiently true at the moment.
Gridley was strong in athletics just because of the real old Gridley High School spirit. Gridley's boys always played to win. They made heroes of the fellows who could lead them to victory after victory. Fred was far on his way home ere the last boy had left him. "I'll get everything in sight now," Ripley told himself, in ecstasy, as he turned in at the gateway to his home.
McCloskey went on, industriously drawing lines in the sand, and Lidgerwood sat on a cross-tie end and conned his lesson. Below the siding the big crane was heaving the derailed cars into line with methodical precision, but now it was Gridley's shop foreman who was giving the orders.
"Couldn't find it?" echoed Lidgerwood. "No; nor I can't, either. It's nowhere in the yards, the roundhouse, or back shop, and none of Gridley's foremen know anything about it. I've had Callahan wire east and west, and if they're all telling the truth, nobody has seen it or heard of it." "Where was it, at last accounts?"
Sharing a tool-box with Gridley and smoking a cigar out of Gridley's pocket-case, Lidgerwood found it difficult to be less than friendly. It was to little purpose that he recalled Ford's qualified recommendation of the man who had New York backing and who, in Ford's phrase, was a "brute after his own peculiar fashion."
For one thing, Lidgerwood's first executive act was to knock in the head of the ten-gallon celebration with a striking-hammer, before it was even spiggoted; and for another he quickly proved that he was Gridley's equal, if not his master, in the gentle art of track-clearing; lastly, and this was the most astonishing thing of all, he demonstrated that clean linen and correct garmentings do not necessarily make for softness and effeminacy in the wearer.
A knock at his door interrupted his revery. Miss Susan Posey informed him that a gentleman was waiting below who wished to see him. "Show him up to my study, Susan Posey, if you please," said Master Gridley. Mr. Penhallow presented himself at Mr. Gridley's door with a countenance expressive of a very high state of excitement. "You have heard the news, Mr. Gridley, I suppose?" "What news, Mr.
One quivering instant -then Wadleigh and Hudson bumped that fullback so hard that he went down, Dick wriggling safely away and bounding toward Filmore's goal. With fire in their eyes, Gridley's center and left wing swept on. Dick Prescott was over the goal line, bending and holding the ball down! Then, indeed, the crowd broke loose all except the few hundreds from Filmore. Was it a touchdown?
Gridley's pivot-chair righted itself with a snap. But he waited until the off-trick man was gone before he said, "Lidgerwood! Well, by all the gods!" then, with a laugh that was more than half a snarl, "There is a chance for you yet, Rankin." "Why, do you know him?" "No, but I know something about him. I've got a line on New York, the same as you have, and I get a hint now and then.
Dick tore open the envelope hurriedly. "It's all right!" he called gleefully. "Mr. Howgate sends this word:" "'Athletic Council approves and sanctions your representing Gridley High School on the water with your Canoe Club. Wish you success! Be careful not to risk lowering Gridley's standard in sports through recklessness."
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