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"Now, for that insult, I take back my promise," Dave retorted solemnly. "You needn't talk any more, Martin. I won't do a blessed thing for you now." "Dave, you're altogether too rough on a fellow that's in hard luck," remonstrated Greg, then turned to Martin to add: "Hi, it's no use to go chasing Ted Teall, but I'll tell you what I'll do.
Not one member of Dick & Co. did the captain of the North Grammar nine really like, but in his present woeful plight Hi wanted human company of some kind, and he could not very well go in search of people who wore all their clothing. While the swimmers had been occupied in the water at the lower end of the pond, Ted Teall had been wonderfully busy.
"I don't believe a word of that, Ted," Dick broke in energetically. "I'm telling you just as it happened," Teall protested. "Oh, I guess you are, all right. But I don't believe Hi had his watch with him. If he had had it, he would have worn a chain or a fob, and I didn't see any, did you, fellows?" "If I thought he had fooled me " muttered Ted vengefully.
"I didn't quit looking until it was so dark that my eyes ached with the strain. But not one sight did I catch of the watch." "Don't worry any more about it, Teall," urged Dave Darrin. "Like Dick, I don't believe, for an instant, that Hi had his watch with him." "Here comes Hi now, out of the ice cream place," whispered Greg. Young Martin certainly didn't look much worried as he gained the street.
"He's afraid, even before the game starts," jeered a group of Central Grammar boys. "That's right, Ted. Guard your life." "Don't be afraid, Teall," Dick urged tantalizingly. "Trying to hit some of my deliveries will be something like an education for you." "Bosh!" sneered Teall. "Then why won't you try a few?"
Hi could not steel himself against a combination of anger and hurt pride. Some of the North Grammar girls in whose eyes he was anxious to stand well were among those who could not help laughing at the ridiculous antics of the colored lad. Toward the close of the first half of the third inning Teall again came to bat. There were no men out in this inning, and two men were on bases.
Ted didn't find the watch, nor did the men searchers get anywhere near a reliable trail of Amos Garwood. As for Dick & Co., they aided in the search for a while, then went home to supper, feeling that they had done their present duty as well as boys might do it. Ted Teall slunk home considerably after dark.
"If they'd only swim away for a little stretch!" whispered Ted. "I see," nodded Hi Martin rather pompously. "Too bad, isn't it? Now, Teall, you and Prescott both come from mucker schools, and I don't know that I ought to butt in any. But I don't mind seeing you torment Prescott a bit. You wait.
"Prescott and his crew are out there swimming, and their clothes are right below." "I see," nodded Martin. "You want to get the clothes?" "Sit down here, out of sight, and keep quiet, won't you?" urged Teall. Hi sat down quietly. He didn't like Teall especially, but he disliked Prescott, and perhaps here was a chance to serve Dick's discomfort.
The principal of the South Grammar, too, was there, flanked by rough-and-tumble Ted Teall and the South's baseball delegation. Captain Ted had to play the Centrals on Saturday, and he wanted to view their style. Though North Grammar was well represented, the principal of the school did not appear, being "detained by pressure of important duties."
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