LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
[The Final Game between Ferry Hill and Hammond—]
[Roy Porter ]
["'That will do, Horace,' said the newcomer. 'You can rest awhile'"]
["Roy lifted his hat, and nodded with a friendly smile, but his only reward was an unseeing glance from the blue eyes" ]
["'If you'll do your honest best there, I'll stick to you as long as you live'" ]
"'Run along, Porter' counselled the peacemaker" (missing)
["'Of course I wasn't christened Chub'" ]
"'Poor old 'Thuselah," she murmured"(missing)
["Even Harry joined her shrill voice, the while she waved her flag valiantly" ]
["Roy leaped upward and forward, clearing him by a foot"]
["'My, what a temper!'" ]
["At last Roy stumbled over a root, went head over heels into a clump of bushes" ]
[Mr. Cobb and the search-party looking for Roy ]
["'Look where you're going, Mr. Cobb!'" ]
["They had gathered chairs of all descriptions from all over the school" ]
["Chub's tambourine flew whirling out of his hand" ]
["It was Roy who dashed across the stage"]
[Roy giving instruction in hockey]
["Schonberg made a last despairing effort when twenty feet from the line" ]
["Quiet fell over Fox Island" ]
["Roy held his breath and waited" ]
["Then slowly, he headed away in the darkness" ]
["It was unlocked and the crimson sweater lay in the top of the till"]
["'When you're down on your luck,' he murmured, 'grin as hard as you can grin'" ]
["'The way that gal sassed me was a caution!'" ]
["Ten hard ones made a difference"]
["'About this!'"]
["Roy's bearers waited" ]
THE CRIMSON SWEATER
CHAPTER I
THE CRIMSON SWEATER'S FIRST APPEARANCE
"Hello, Lobster!"
The boy in the crimson sweater raised a pair of blue eyes to the speaker's face and a little frown crept into the sun-burned forehead; but there was no answer.
"Where'd you get that sweater?"