“They couldn’t!” cried Hodge, loyally. “That would be an impossibility!”
“It can’t be you really mean that, old man?”
“Of course I do.”
“Then you are foolish. Why, Hodge, there are hundreds of men just as good as yours truly. I know I am a good player, but I also know there are others.”
It was nearly midnight when they left the car and started to walk the short distance to the hotel. Frank led the way by a short cut through a narrow street, which was rather dark and deserted.
“There are not many fellows who would have done what you did to-night for a girl who had treated them as Miss Darling treated you,” said Bart.
“Oh, I don’t know! It seems to me that almost any fellow would have done that.”
“Hegner was with her, but he did not lift a hand to save her.”
“It is plain he did not know what to do. He did not think quickly enough.”
“That is just it, Merry. In any emergency you think of just the right thing to do, and that is what makes you such a good man. I say Yale can’t afford to lose you from her eleven, and I hope you will not be damaged so it will knock you out.”