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Updated: July 16, 2025
But the chances of Tim doing that seemed remote. He had his good moments times when it seemed that he had struck the right road and was on his way to better things. Always, though, something happened to turn him aside. Next day there was baseball practice. Don came to the field eager for a warm-up. He nodded hopefully to Tim, and took his place, and noticed that Ted Carter was loitering near by.
'So then we went to talking about other things, and we had a song, and then a breakdown; and after that the captain of the watch called for another song; but it was clouding up, now, and the bar'l stuck right thar in the same place, and the song didn't seem to have much warm-up to it, somehow, and so they didn't finish it, and there warn't any cheers, but it sort of dropped flat, and nobody said anything for a minute.
He had had his baptism of fire. He was a veteran. "I was just going to send somebody to look you up," said Ted. "Everything all right? Good! Shoot away." Thoughts of Tim came, but Don thrust them aside and shook his head stubbornly. What had happened was no fault of his. He had done his best. Now he was going to enjoy himself. "Great stuff," said Ted when the warm-up was over.
There was considerable noise, for the muffler was not fully closed. Dick wanted to warm-up the machinery first. "That'll do!" shouted Mr. Vardon, who was watching the gage that told the number of revolutions per minute. "Throw in your clutch!" "Now to see if she'll rise or not," murmured Dick.
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