“Watch his glass arm break!”
These cries greeted Dunk, who was pitching for the freshmen against a scrub nine one afternoon. It was a few days before the game with the Princeton freshmen—the first game of the season, and the Yale freshman coaches were anxious to get their nine into good shape.
“Ah! There he goes!” came a yell, as the scrub batter hit the ball Dunk pitched in to Andy. But the ball went straight back into the hands of Dunk, who stopped it, hot liner though it was, and the batter was out—retiring the side.
CHAPTER XXXII
VICTORY
Mortimer Gaffington stayed on at Yale. How he did it Andy and Dunk, who alone seemed to know of his father’s failure, could not tell. Andy’s mother confirmed her first news about Mr. Gaffington’s losses. Yet Mortimer stayed at college.
Afterward it developed that he was in dire straits, and only by much ingenuity did he manage to raise enough to keep up appearances. He borrowed right and left, taking from one to satisfy the demands of another—an endless chain sort of arrangement that was bound to break sooner or later.
But Mortimer had managed to make a number of new friends in the “fast” set and these were not careful to remind him of the loans he solicited. Then, also, these youths had plenty of money. On them Mortimer preyed.