Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums

den. I've got some comfortable chairs there, as you happen to know; and it'll be a hea

t seemed to convince Bob,

ll you now. It certainly is a shame how I've muddled this thing up, and I guess I deserve all I'm

y still more. He began to understand that whatever the other had been searching for was not his own property, for he was

den." It was an odd-shaped room for which there had really been no especial use, and which the boy had fitted up with a stove,

d the door

, briskly, as though bent on raising the other's drooping spir

s last friend. He sighed and then s

d three that Mom gave me. I can recollect shoving them in the shute one by one; but for the life of me, Jack, I can't say positively that the one going across to England was with the bunch. Oh! it gave me a cold chill whe

grown weary of Bob's customary way of forgetting things, or doing them in a slipshod fashion. He even knew that Mr. Je

did put that particular letter in the post-office. We'll try to find out if Mr. Dickerson, the postmaster, or his assistant, chan

r has gripped nearly the whole world, Uncle Sam with the rest, it's a long wait before you can expect an answer to a letter going abroad, even if the German submarines allow it to reach there. And if I

oose from his pernicious habit of taking everything free-and-easy. Good might spring from evil, and what n

ter directed to England in the mail yesterday. There are not so many foreign letters going out of Chester these days but what such a thing might happen to catch his ey

f he has to know what a fool I've been; because he told me if he caught me in any bit of carelessness again this Fall he'd force me to give up all my connection with the football squad, and not even allow me to attend the gym this Winter.

splendid physique. Indeed, he did look like a boy whom a generous Nature intended to take part in every conceivab

y lantern, and we'll walk back over that path. Possibly the wind may have

e it a heap. Yes, and I'll also get out before dawn in the morning to scour every yard of ground on the way from

might not be as strong as the glow of the hand-torch, it was able to cover much more ground at a

pper that for the life of him he found it impossible to say positively one thing or the other. Now he thought he could remember distinctly pushing the import

the heap that went out with the afternoon mail, then there was no help for it; and poor Bob was doomed to wait day after day, as even weeks w

ted to carefully examine the long and tangled grass, now partly d

k on one occasion started to say something he saw the other whirl around as th

round before giving it up as hopeless; but Jack felt certain nothing would be found. If that letter had dropped from the boy's pocket, then some one must have long since

ed, in a decidedly dejected tone, after they had gone twice over the entir

suppose you'll sleep mighty little tonight, for worrying over this thing. Try your level best to follow out all you did when

no matter what did happen I couldn't honestly say I remembered it. But I still have a little hope you'll hear good news from Mr. Dickerson; or that in the morning it may be handed

l liked, having a genial disposition, like nearly all big boys do, the smaller runts being the scrappy ones as a rule,

her, Alec Donohue, appeared exceedingly gloomy, and confessed to Jack that as his father was unable to obtain work in the Chester m

uld give Mr. Donohue employment, and enlisted his sympathy. It had all ended right, by a place being found for the ma

ions by which Chester was to be threatened with th

this case it's the football eleven that's liable to be weakened if Bob's father takes him out; and we never could scare up a ful