Why jump on me ?" "You, because God has bestowed on you the gift to lead men," said the minister with increasing solemnity.

"A high gift it is, and one for which God will hold you responsible." That very night, passing by the Lucky Strike Pool Rooms, Captain Jack had turned in to find a score and more of youths--many of them from the mills--flashing their money with reckless freedom in an atmosphere thick with foul tobacco-smoke and reeking with profane and lewd speech.

On reaching his home that night Maitland went straight to the attic and dug up his hockey kit.

Before he slept he had laid his plans for a league among the working lads in the various industries in the town.
It was no easy task to force these men into training habits, to hold them to the grind, to discipline them into self-control in temper and in desire.

It was of vast assistance to him that three of his seven were overseas men, while some dozen or so of the twenty in the club were returned soldiers.