And he leaned forward, took up his glass of water, and, with the warm smile which had endeared him to so many hearts, proposed a toast.
“To Mrs. McQuade and her hospitable roof-tree!”
A resounding cheer shook the rafters, and the good lady herself, between tears and laughter, was unable to respond. But she could not have made herself heard.
“And here’s another to Frank Merriwell, senior!” shouted Billy McQuade. Another roar went up.
“And another to the ‘Chip of the old block’!” yelled Clancy frantically. Chip held up his hand for silence.
“I guess,” he said, looking around with the smile that was so much like his father’s, “I guess we’d better call off another to the Carsonville Clippings—the picked-up nine that clipped the Clippers!”
CHAPTER XIV.
“SOUR GRAPES.”
“Too bad about Ted Crockett,” said Garding, pulling on the weights.
“For Fardale, you mean,” returned Lee Chester. “Fine for Ted.”