Which he did. And the ball proved to be the very one the Moderns had lost a week ago! How curious!
Chapter Eleven.
Fellsgarth versus Rendlesham.
How it came that Rollitt played, after all, in the Rendlesham match, no one could properly understand.
His name was not down on the original list. Yorke had given up asking him to play, as he always either excused himself, or, what was worse, promised to come and failed at the last moment.
After the defeat of the Moderns at the second election, the question of the selection of the fifteen had been allowed to drop; and those who were keen on victory hoped no further difficulty would arise. Two days before the match, however, Brinkman was unlucky enough to hurt his foot, and to his great mortification was forbidden by the doctor to play. The news of his accident caused general consternation, as he was known to be a good forward and a useful man in a scrimmage. Clapperton increased the difficulty by coming over to say that as Brinkman was laid up, he had arranged for Corder to play instead.
Corder, as it happened, was a Modern senior, a small fellow, and reputed an indifferent player.
“He wouldn’t do at all,” said Yorke, decisively.