“Oh, I don’t know! We’ve developed two good men on this trip. You know Merriwell is doing only just enough pitching to get into perfect form. When a game looks bad, of course, he goes in and pulls us out. We’ve found a good man in Morgan.”
“Morgan?”
“Yes.”
“Why, I thought——”
“That he was Frank’s worst enemy and would not be taken onto the nine? Well, a change has come over Morgan since that villainous old uncle of his died. I don’t like the fellow at all, but I have been compelled to confess to Merriwell that there is a prospect of Morgan becoming a great pitcher.”
“The other——”
“Is Starbright. He can pitch, but he does not forge ahead quite as fast as Morgan.”
“What do I care about them chaps?” King Jimmy whispered. “They ain’t in it with Frank Merriwell. He’s the only feller that can beat Virgil Paragon, and if anything’s happened to him, Yale will get walloped out of her boots to-day.”
“But I tell you Virginia will win to-day if Frank does not pitch. I believe Ditson is satisfied of that, and I fear he has done something to get Frank out of the way.”
“I hardly think that, Elsie. Don’t get nervous about Frank. I’ll look him up when I go back to the hotel. I must have a little chat with you first.”