“An outrage!”
“It’s dirt!”
“I believe it’s a put-up job!”
“Why, Merriwell is the hope of the eleven!”
“We can’t win without him!”
Frank was the least ruffled among them.
“Don’t talk foolishly, fellows,” he said. “Of course, Yale can win without me. I’m not the whole team.”
“Well, you are a big part of it,” asserted Stubbs.
“I told you Birch was jealous!” cried the fellow who had made the assertion. “He’s had Merriwell kicked off.”
“I can’t think that,” said Frank, shaking his head. “Fred Birch would not do it.”