"Sure."
"What's he out here for?"
"Don't ask me!"
"Thought he was out of it. Hasn't seemed to take any interest in the eleven this season."
"Perhaps he thinks he's stayed away till it is so late he'll not be asked to come on the team. He couldn't keep away any longer."
"Well, he's needed on the eleven, and that is a fact. He has disgusted his friends by pulling out of the game."
Gordan laughed.
"He seems to think he can retire on the laurels he has won."
"Well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life," said Harris. "Yale doesn't have any use for shirks. If he thinks he can retire because he made a great run in the Princeton game last fall, he is mistaken."
"He is retiring on his reputation as a globe-trotter," sneered Walter. "You know he has been all over the world. I expect to hear any day that he has discovered the North Pole during some of his extensive travels, but has forgotten to say anything about it."