“I did what was right.”
“You may think so.”
“I know it!”
“Very well. Now I’ll do what I know is right. You dropped me because you heard that I said the team was being overtrained.”
“Yes.”
“I said it, and I meant it, Lorrimer. I know you are earnest in your desire to down Harvard, and I do not like to see you defeating yourself.”
“Say, will you let up on this business?”
“Not till I am through with you—not till I have told you something that may open your eyes enough so it will save Yale from defeat.”
“Oh, you’re eager to save Yale from defeat, are you?” cried Steve, with an accent of doubt and derision.
“I am,” was the retort. “I do not care a rap whether I play on the eleven or not if the blue defeats the crimson. If I were on the team and thought for a minute that it could be made stronger by taking on some other man, I’d get off.”