When a person wishes to do wrong it is usually not long before an opportunity presents itself. Sidney went past the Darrow homestead that afternoon and saw some of the club members in front of the carpenter shop, dusting and cleaning their baseball suits, which were usually kept on hooks in the club room, the association not having as yet had lockers built for that purpose.
"I've got it!" he told himself. "I wonder if I can work it? Oh, it's just the dandy scheme. Won't they feel sick all over when they find out what has happened!"
CHAPTER XVII.
IN WHICH THE CLUB'S OUTFIT DISAPPEARS.
Sidney Yates was well acquainted with a boy some years younger than himself, named Billy Fram. Billy belonged to a family that had never held a very good name in Lakeport, and the boy often played truant from school and was known for his mean habits.
It was to Billy Fram that Sidney went after seeing the baseball club members cleaning and brushing up their suits for the game with Brookside. He had gone to Billy several times before and always got the boy to do some dirty piece of work for him. Sidney himself was too much of a coward to do what was now in his mind.
"Billy, I want you," he said.
"Wot yer want?" demanded Billy, suspiciously. He was "in hot water" so much he viewed every demand on him with suspicion.
"I want you to do something for me."
"Wot?"