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Phin realized, though he dared not look about him any longer, that the hissing came as much from the girls as from the boys. Drayne did not attempt to bend over his desk. Instead, he marched swiftly down the half of the aisle, then past the platform toward the door. "Mr. Drayne," called Dr. Thornton, "you have not taken your books, or paper or other desk materials."
Trying to sentence, me to solitary confinement?" wondered the young man, when minute after minute went by without any call for him. In the Board room he could hear the droning of voices. "And that Dick Prescott is out there, sitting at a reporter's table, ready to take in all that happens," muttered Phin savagely. "Won't he enjoy himself, though?"
And the man who "must be there himself" was critically ill and unconscious! The long telegram, several hundred words of it, was before us. I read it through again, and Miss Colton sat and looked at me. "Do you understand it now?" she whispered, anxiously. "Yes, I think I do. . . . What is it, Phin?"
"Open her up! Open her up!" commanded Gabe. "I've got somethin' to tell you." Captain Sam opened the window. Gabriel's face was aglow with excitement. "Say! Say!" he cried. "Did he tell you? Did he tell you?" "Did who tell what?" demanded the captain. "Did Phin Babbitt tell you what was in that telegram he just got? What did he say when he read it? Did he swear? I bet he did!
Nearly two hundred young men in black and gray cadet uniforms of the United States Military Academy pattern sat in a solid block at one point on the grand stand. "No, they're not West Pointers," sighed Dick. "See here, those fellows, of course, are students at the Fordham Military institute. They wear the West Point uniform. And that's the military school that Phin Drayne went to."
They flung families where every one was sick out into that slough. I guess what's left of 'em wouldn't be a supper-spell for a bunch of long-billed mosquitoes. But one of them milishy captains was certainly partial to your folks for some reason. They was let to stay in Phin Daggin's house till you come." "And Prudence the Corsons Miss Prudence Corson?" "Oh, ho! So she's the one, is she?
Gridley merchants lost but little, in the end, through the series of burglaries. Most of the plunder was recovered at the junk shop. Bill Stevens was sent to prison for a term of eight years. Phin, being only seventeen, was allowed to plead his youth. In his case justice was satisfied with his commitment to a reform school until he should be twenty-one years of age.
"Oh, my father won't quite stand for that," returned Phin, a bit more loftily. "He has money and some family pride." "Money doesn't help much for confessed burglars," rejoined Chief Simmons. At that moment Heathcote Drayne, who had been roused out of bed by a policeman, came in, so white faced that Dick and Dave felt sorry indeed for the unhappy parent.
It came at last, however, and Darrin knew what postponed happiness means. The Message from the Unknown With the Christmas holidays Phin Drayne came home, to stay so far as school was concerned. After his unhappy experience at the Fordham Military Institute, Phin had found things almost as unpleasant at Wilburville Academy. For some reason the boys at Wilburville hadn't taken to him.
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.
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