“Then he is right—in a way,” she said. “If it were not for you he’d still be playing?”
“I suppose so,” he responded. “The manager made the change—we had nothing to do but obey him.”
“Harry said you took unfair advantage of him,” she said easily. “I told him I did not believe it.”
“Thank you,” he said. “The truth is he lost his temper in a game and threatened to quit, so the manager took him at his word—and put me in his place.”
“I’m sorry you boys cannot play your foolish games without quarreling. Why don’t you let him play? It seems to me it is babyish to be fighting over a little thing like that.”
“I couldn’t let him play if I wanted to,” he answered. “Girls don’t understand things.”
“Harry says he is going to play in the game against Golden,” she answered innocently. “He said he must play because he has invited several of his girl friends to come and see him—and he would be so ashamed if he did not get to play.”
“Did he say how he was going to get back onto the team?” Larry was becoming suspicious. He realized that the girl did not understand that she was betraying secrets, and felt guilty in drawing admissions from her.
“Oh—he has several plans,” she replied innocently. “I told him I would ask you not to play”——
“But you do not understand,” he interrupted. “Mr. Haxton says who will play, and we have nothing to do with it. If he thinks Harry ought to play he will.”