Wiley gave a little sob.
“How can you doubt my veracity?” he murmured. “Here is Abe. He heard it also. Am I not speaking the unadulterated and undefiled truth, Abe?”
“It is true,” declared the hunchback.
Immediately Dick called Captain Madison.
“Look here, Madison,” he said grimly, “we want another umpire.”
“Oh, do you?” sneered the captain of the visiting team. “You want everything your own way I presume. Well, we are satisfied with this umpire.”
“I am not.”
“That makes no difference to me. He will stay in there until the game is finished.”
“I don’t think so,” retorted Dick quietly. “I have evidence that there is a double deal in this affair. I have the proof, Madison. Some of your players were heard saying that the umpire was fixed.”
“Who said so?”