“You will see lots more things just like that happen to-day,” asserted Zona, whose courage had now risen to the highest point.
“Oh, the game is young yet! Here comes Captain Roberts.”
“And Captain Roberts is third on the list,” asserted the exuberant Fardale girl. “They retire in order this inning.”
Roberts was a first-class hitter, and he connected with the first ball pitched, driving it swiftly along the ground.
Darrell got in front of the ball, but, somehow, he let it go through his hands, and it sped on over the short grass outside the diamond.
A groan came from the little bunch of Fardale boys on the bleachers.
“Wasn’t that a shame!” exclaimed Zona Desmond. “Why[Why] didn’t he stop that ball, Doris?”
Doris shook her head.
“I don’t know,” she confessed. “You know such things will happen.”
But in her heart the feeling of doubt and anxiety was rapidly increasing.