Signed: H. M. Coddington, President.
What an ovation the men gave Peter that day! And how grateful Peter was to his father! So grateful that before going to bed he felt compelled to break their compact of silence and exclaim:
“Father, it’s splendid of you to keep the field for the men! I can’t thank you half enough, sir. But you ought not to name it after me.”
“I’m not naming it after you,” was his father’s laconic reply. “I’m naming it after Peter Strong.”
CHAPTER V
A CATASTROPHE
