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"That's the Gridley way -that's all. We don't know how to be whipped. I've been taught that ever since I first entered the High School." "Pshaw!" muttered Drayne, who was passing. "Don't you believe our chances are good, Mr. Drayne?" asked Mr. Morton, smiling.
Morton, taking hold of Drayne's nearer elbow. Phin turned white now. He went along, saying nothing, until Mr. Morton halted by the outer gate. "Pass through, Drayne -and never let us see your face inside this gate again." "But why? What " "Ask your conscience!" snapped back the coach. "You'd better travel fast! I'm going back to talk to the other fellows!" Mr. Morton was gone.
There are some men who imagine that it lends importance to themselves when they talk loudly and offer to wager money. I'm not going to offer any bets, Dave, but I feel pretty certain that Drayne is just talking for effect." "His offering to bet against his own crowd would be enough to justify you in dropping Drayne from the squad altogether," hinted Greg Holmes. "Yes, of course," admitted Dick.
In this disguise Drayne sat where he could see what would happen. At the outset it was Gridley's kick off, and for the next ten minutes Tottenville had the ball, fighting stubbornly with it. But at last, when forced half way down the field between center and its own goal line, Gridley blocked so well in the three following plays that the pigskin came to the home eleven.
Every pair of eyes in the room was focused on him. "Mr. Drayne," continued the principal, and now there was a steely glitter of contempt in the old man's eyes, "you were displeased because you did not attain to as high honors on the football eleven as you had hoped.
For the next arrivals were Phin Drayne, and his father, Heathcote Drayne. Phin was now in attendance at the Wilburville Academy, and his father had come down, the evening before, to urge his son to try for West Point. Tom looked the newcomer over with especial disfavor. Young Drayne, like many another "peculiar" fellow, was an unusually good student.
"I think that is regarded as being the general understanding," continued Dick. He didn't like this classmate, yet he hated to give offense or to hurt the other's feelings in any way. "The general understanding?" repeated Drayne hotly. "Then I can tell the man who started that understanding." "I think I can, too," Prescott answered, smiling patiently. "It was you, Dick Prescott!
"Keep out of my way, after this -you less-than-nothing!" muttered Dick between his teeth. "I don't want to have to even hit a thing like you!" "You'll show good judgment, Mr. Big-head, if you don't try it," jeered Drayne, menacing Dick with the cane. The color came into Dick's face.
"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.
"That's the run around the left end!" throbbed Phin Drayne. But it wasn't. A fake kick, followed by a cyclonic impact at the right followed. "They've changed the signals!" gulped the guilty masquerader behind the black veil. "Then they've found out." With this came the next disheartening thought: "That's the reason, then, why the coach ordered me out of the field Thursday afternoon.
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