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Saw I had barely time to get into my togs and catch that three-twelve, so I hustled." Rackliff started to laugh, but finished with a hollow cough. "Bet I've caught a rotten cold," he gasped. "The game went for the full nine innings. Didn't begin to rain until I was pretty near halfway home."
"When it comes to wagering money," observed Rackliff wisely, "the fellow who bets on sympathy or loyalty is a chump. I always back my judgment and try to use some common sense about it. I hope you don't think for a fleeting moment that I contemplate finishing my preparatory school education in this stagnant hole. Not for little Herbert. I'd get paresis here in less than a year.
Rackliff also supplied a match, and then motioned toward a near-by stone, urging Phil to sit down and make himself comfortable. "You haven't looked hilariously cheerful of late," said the city youth. "Sort of taken your downfall to heart, haven't you?" "My dud-downfall?" "Yes. Oh, you're down and out, all right, and you must realize it you do, too. Your proficient pupil, Mr.
"You don't mind being hit a little in batting practice, do you?" "That wasn't it," fibbed Hooker. "Didn't you hear those chumps cackle with glee? That's what made me sore. Then what's the use for me to try to pitch if Eliot isn't going to give me any sort of a show?" "No use at all," said Rackliff cheerfully. "I've noticed that on all these athletic teams there's more or less partiality shown."
He ran to the side of the bridge and looked over. Foxhall was swimming toward the nearest bank, with Snead puffing and blowing behind him; but Rackliff, who had struck on his stomach sufficiently hard to have the breath knocked out of him, was being carried away by the current, struggling feebly.
There is some fun in that, I own up." "Well, don't be gone long," said Roy. "I guess I'll get enough of this in ten or fifteen minutes more, and I want to ride some myself to-night." Trundling out the machine, Rackliff heard the ball thudding again against the back of the stable. Friday afternoon Herbert did not appear at school. Hooker looked for him in vain and wondered why he had remained away.
When she discovered the money was gone and became distressed over its loss, I lied." "You would have been a fool if you'd owned up." "I was a fool to touch a cent of that money, in the first place. I was a fool to listen to your blarney, Rackliff. Just because I was idiot enough to believe in you, I made myself a thief and a liar. Oh, I've been punished for it, all right.
"I'd like to bet on it," said Herbert, with a touch of eagerness; "but I don't suppose I could find anybody down around here with sporting blood enough to risk any real money on the game. Say, do me a favor; tell Newt Copley that Herbert Rackliff is here in this town.
"I'll win some money to-day, all right," he thought; "but, really, I'd rather be wearing an Oakdale suit, even if we lose." As the Barville nine came in from the field and Oakdale went out, Roy saw Herbert Rackliff saunter forth and speak to Newt Copley, who shook hands with him. Then Herbert drew Copley aside and began talking to him in very low tones, and with unusual animation.
No one paid much attention to them, for most of the boys held very decided opinions, which were far from favorable, of a chap who would show the disposition Hooker had so plainly betrayed; and Rackliff had never revealed an inclination to seek popularity among his schoolmates.
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