"Then, as there is but one candidate in the field, perhaps it is unnecessary——"
"I move that Dick Hamilton be unanimously elected captain of the Kentfield football eleven, by acclimation, and long may he wave o'er the team of the strong and the team of the brave!" cried Dutton.
"Second it!" cried Frank.
"All those in favor of this motion will signify it by saying 'yes,'" called the coach.
"YES!" was the reverbrating shout that fairly made the walls ring.
"Then Dick Hamilton is the football captain, and I beg to extend him my congratulations," said Mr. Martin.
"And I, also," added his colleague, and the two coaches stepped from the platform, and advanced toward the blushing young millionaire, while his friends crowded around him to do him honor.