Left Guard Gilbert

elp of pain from Don, Tim drew off, panting and grinning. Don was extending a left hand, funereally

m. "What's the m

little,"

ad, you idiot! How? Hit

sort of a wreck coming on. Out in Indiana some

an! I didn't notice the c

ness, you know. Safety first and so on.

er end of the seat, took his

h to see your ugly mug again, Don.

with you is, you don't recognis

he. "I recognise it every time I look in the gl

ave it that way. 'Er, quite so, Gilbert, quite so, but I-er-think you had better see Mr. Fernald.

tell him your tr

he same. Maybe he's right, but I couldn't figure it out in Cincinnati. Besides, I didn't get away with much of anything besides pajamas and overcoat

"Didn't he see your hand? How did he thi

n't notice it. He came around all right in the e

nodded at the injured hand. "

ings got

to! Come across with the sickening details. How did it

the sporting page,"

low away! Wasn't

fireman scalded, about twenty passengers injured more or less. Several considerably more. Express messeng

on! How di

ar turned half over and sat that way. Doors got jammed. We beat it out by the windows. I was a Roman Senator with a green berth curtain wrapped about me. Afterwards I sneaked back and pulled out my shoes and overcoat. Always sleep with my shoes under my pillow, you see. Good idea, too. If I hadn't had them there I'd nev

u know, I don't see

to pull some of them out the windows and through the roofs. Women, too. Lucky thing

e engineer was kill

caught and scalded like the dickens. Saw the engineer myself." Don frowned and shuddered. "Nasty mes

lucky, weren't you? You might

any more. Funny thing, though, I didn't mind it at all until I was on the train going to Cincinnati

would have. How

and the palm. It'll be all right in a few days, I guess. Docto

tt, Don, what a

ing doing for a week or so,

hurry you up. Said you'd have to come right out if you wante

ht, I guess. Who's

and Pryme and Lawton are all after places.

e fello

g great form. Still, you can't tell much yet. There's to be scrimmage tomorrow. We play Thacher

We beat them 26

three to

nty-

three. B

right, though. Anyway, Thach

how tickled we were to see them. Ate sandwiches and cake and lemonade and-by the way, we've got a new master; physics; Moller his nam

ennsylvania, y

ly. "All right. Let it stay ther

Rollins

aid he heard he'd gone to some whopping big

thern school," sug

move on. It's nearly time

ything since about ten o'clock this morning. Ran out of money. Got here with eight cents in my pocket.

uck the city; told him I had to have some hankies and ties, you know. Then I steered him up against this here suit, and this here suit made a hit with him right away. If h

if it fits me,

l wh

it fro

y. I'm afraid that suit wouldn't fit you, though, Don. You've grown

in strict training all summer. What you think is fat is good

village-bl

te w

arms were strong as iron bands,' or something l

d a mouth a shade too wide. But it was a good-tempered, pleasant face, on the whole, intelligent and capable and matching well the physically capable body below, a body of wide shoulders and well-knit muscles and a deep chest that might have belonged to a youth of eighteen instead of seventeen. Compared with Tim Otis, who was of the same

a quizzical smile on his good-looking face. And, after a moment's

e asked, "gla

slow smile crept o

e," he