“Oh, Tia, Tia! Quis is dreadfully angry at me!” she sobbed out. “He has said such awful things! He has even accused me of coaching Bobs Drake to keep him above this week, so that he can play in the championship game and keep Quis out!”
CHAPTER V
THE GAME
“THIS is to certify that Robin Sidney Drake is above in all his studies at Marston High School, and qualified to enter the football game on Saturday, November 16, 1907.”
Those were the words on the paper which Bobs fluttered in Jacquette’s face when he met her in the hall between bells, on Friday afternoon. The document was signed by all his teachers, and, at the foot, appeared the principal’s name, preceded by the mystic letters, “O. K.”
“Hurrah!” she cried, her face pink with gladness, in spite of an uncomfortable thought of Marquis. “You did it yourself, that’s the best of it! Now, you may decide to write sonnets for a living, after all.”
“Not much!” he denied, so fervently that Jacquette laughed.
“How perfectly funny it looks to see your name written, ‘Robin Sidney Drake’!” she went on, still admiring the paper.
“Why? Isn’t it a nice name?” he asked, anxiously. Bobs had always cherished a haunting doubt about the propriety of naming a boy after a bird.