men together and put to them the
problem before him. "It seems a rotten time to bring this matter up
just when we are going on to the ground, but I never really thought much
about it till that little lady put it to me as I told you. And, fellows,
I have felt as if it were really up to me to put it before you. They
have lost their goal man, Coleman--there's no better in the League--and
because of this infernal rule they decline to put on a cracking good
player. They are playing the game on honour, and they are expecting
us to do the same, and as that English chap says, they expect us to be
gentlemen. I apologise to you all, and if you say go on as we are, I
will go on because I feel I ought to have kicked before. But I do so
under protest and feeling like a thief. I suggest that Harremann take
Liebold's place. Awfully sorry about it, Liebold, and I apologise to
you. I can't tell you how sorry I am, boys, but that's how it is with
me."

There was no time for discussion, and strangely enough there was little
desire for it, the Captain's personality and the action of the Wolf
Willow team carrying the proposition through. Harremann took his place
on the team, and Liebold made his contribution that day from the side
lines. But the team went on to the field with a sense that whatever
might be the outcome of the match they had begun the day with victory.

The match was contested with the utmost vigour, not to say violence; but
there was a absence of the rancour which had too often characterised
the clashing of these teams on previous occasions, the Eagle Hill team
carrying on to the field a new respect for their opponents as men who
had shown a true sporting spirit. And by the time the first quarter was
over their action in substituting an inferior player for Liebold for
honour's sake was known to all the members of the Wolf Willow team, and
awakened in them and in their friends among the spectators a new respect
for their enemy. The match resulted in a victory for the home team, but
the generous applause which followed the Eagle Hill team from the field
and which greeted them afterward at the dinner where they occupied an
honoured place at the table set apart for distinguished guests, and
the excellent dinner provided by the thrifty Ladies' Aid of All Saints
Church went far to soothe their wounded spirits and to atone for their
defeat.

"Awfully fine of you, Duckworth," said Larry, as they left the table
together. "That's t