Batting to Win

ridors Tom and Phil reached their ro

no danger of being caught. "You should have been along, Sid. Pitchfork go

was a smoker. I hope none of us are caught. The

y inquiry followed, but the hose and air pump had been taken from the school laboratory, and there were

hill, "if I can only find them," and there was a twinkle in hi

noon, as the lads were dispersing, Ed Kerr was seen c

airview Saturday

" asked T

their season," went on the manager. "They

to do it?" in

u fellows say?" a

. We'll let it go a week," assented Tom. "B

is Saturday, and we can go to Wescott University the followin

came in

eturned to their ro

, Phil?" asked the pitcher, and the

d not wanting to tell. And he sure is cut up over Miss H

f college fellows were caught. Some of 'em were our chaps, but they m

think he w

l season," and Tom sighed, as though he had the weight of worlds on his shoulders. And, indeed it is no small task to be

ested Phil. "Now he's had it he's ashame

that he was cau

at night? He admits that he was in Dartwell, and he must have been somewhere n

e gave his name

"I never thought of that. But no-no c

Gerhart. Gerhart is in par

rview-more fools they! But it sure has put Sid on the blink as far as Miss Harrison goes. Ruth was telling me her

, and we need him in good condition. First thing

f I'm to play on the team myself. I'm getting to low wate

had met, and beaten, Layton Preparatory school, that P

ll we go?"

Tonoka Lake car,

iew," asserted Phil. "Well, I

toward the co-educational institution, and of course, I suppose, it was also only a coi

carelessly, though he was not l

m, as if it was the que

turn back, I suppose?" asked Phil

o ask your sister what she thinks of

rted Phil. "Well, come on," and they walked to meet the gir

led his sister. "Glad to s

ied Miss Tyler, w

mured Sid, who was very sensitive

d Tom. "We'll so

to disclose to Tom and Phil who they were-Miss Harrison and Fred Langridge. The couple were chatting and laughing merrily. Instinctively Tom turned to see if S

uickly, and she began to talk rapidly abou

o their room a little later that night, they saw a

there,"

finish the sentence. Awkwardly he and Tom pushed

ith both gas and the incandescents. Holding a paper in the glow of the bulb, Sid was examining the document with t

ng?" as

plied Sid

ualifying for a course in identifying handwriting," for h

sked Sid suddenly, h

e you going over with a microscope a letter you've written to her, to se

taining that clipping with my name in it-the report of the gambling raid-I pic

d Phil, who did not e

nd he showed them a missive containing some referenc

ent on Sid, "and I saved it, for some un

m, who began to se

the envelope that had contained the damaging clipping. He held the magnifying g

the same person wro

ight," ag

red Langridge sent to Miss Harrison that lying clippi