As if from a great distance he seemed to hear Frank Merriwell crying:
"Just a little single, Ephraim! You never failed in a pinch in all your life! You can't fail now!"
Those words seemed to brush the mist from Gallup's eyes, and something like confidence crept back into his heavy heart.
Nevertheless he merely fouled Bender's first shoot.
"One strike!"
The next ball was far too high, but Gallup swung at it and missed.
"All over! all over!" whooped McCann.
The spectators in the stand and on the bleachers were standing.
"I knowed I couldn't do it!" thought Gallup.