"Oh, that's all right, Prescott," laughed young Ransom. "If we
hadn't shown up at all you fellows would have given a good
account of yourselves. But we had to do it. Fordham is our
headquarters, too, and the honor of the town, while we live and
study here, means something to all of us. Don't gauge even the
Fordham High School by what happened to-day---or came near
happening. There are some mighty fine fellows and a lot of noble
girls who attend Fordham High School. But Barnes---he's the curse
of the school population of the town."
Three or four days later Dick asked Darrin:
"Did you hear the outcome of the Fordham affair?"
"No," Dave admitted.
"I just heard it all up at 'The Blade' office. The fact that
the Military School cadets escorted us in such formal manner to
the railway station attracted a lot of attention in Fordham.
The principal of the High School there started a quiet investigation
of his own. Barnes and two other fellows on the Fordham eleven
have been suspended from school until the School Board can take
up their cases and decide whether they ought to be expelled.
The Fordham principal has also made it plain that next year's
team will have to be scanned by him, and that he'll keep out of
the eleven any fellows who don't come up to the tests. There's
a jolly big row on in Fordham, and Barnes isn't having any sympathy
wasted on him you can just bet."
"It serves him and that whole football crew just right," blazed
Darrin.
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