eautiful a light as shone in Milly's eyes.

From that day The Honeymoon Trip of the Worcester Baseball Club, as the
newspapers heralded it--was a triumphant march. We won two out of
three games at Montreal, broke even with the hard-fighting Bisons, took
three straight from Rochester, and won one and tied one out of three
with Hartford. It would have been wonderful ball playing for a team to
play on home grounds and we were doing the full circuit of the league.

Spears had called the turn when he said the trip would be a hummer.
Nan Hurtle had brought us wonderful luck.

But the tricks they played on Whit and his girl-fan bride!

Ashwell, who was a capital actor, disguised himself as a conductor and
pretended to try to eject Whit and Nan from the train, urging that
love-making was not permitted. Some of the team hired a clever young
woman to hunt the Rube up at the hotel, and claim old acquaintance with
him. Poor Whit almost collapsed when the young woman threw her arms
about his neck just as Nan entered the parlor. Upon the instant Nan
became wild as a little tigress, and it took much explanation and
eloquence to reinstate Whit in her affections.

Another time Spears, the wily old fox, succeeded in detaining Nan on
the way to the station, and the two missed the train. At first the
Rube laughed with the others, but when Stringer remarked that he had
noticed a growing attachment between Nan and Spears, my great pitcher
experienced the first pangs of the green-eyed monster. We had to hold
him to keep him from jumping from the train, and it took Milly and Mrs.
Stringer to soothe him. I had to wire back to Rochester for a special
train for Spears and Nan, and even then we had to play half a game
without the services of our captain.

So far upon our trip I had been fortunate in securing comfortable rooms
and the best of transportation for my party. At Hartford, however, I
encountered difficulties. I could not get a special Pullman, and the
sleeper we entered already had a number of occupants. After the ladies
of my party had been assigned to berths, it was necessary for some of
the boys to sleep double in upper berths.

It was late when we got aboard, the berths were already made up, and
soon we had all retired. In the morning very early I was awakened by a
disturbance. It sounded like a squeal. I heard an astonished
exclamation, another squeal, the pattering of little feet, then hoarse
uproar of laughter