Lakeville had won the game and the State interscholastic baseball championship,—Lakeville and its substitutes.
The score:
| Innings | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Total | |
| Belden | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Lakeville | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | |
CHAPTER XXVI
THE TWENTY-FIFTH BOY
Bunny was sure the young man who shared his seat on the train must be mistaken.
"You see," he told him, "there are only eight Boy Scouts in a patrol, and there is only one patrol in Lakeville. Besides, I am one of those eight. That leaves only seven you could have seen, because I have been visiting my uncle in Elkana for a week."
The young man was stubborn. "I know what I saw with my own eyes," he insisted. "Last Thursday afternoon, when I was in Lakeville, there were at least twenty kids around town in Boy Scout uniforms."