You are to take the place of Post at L.H.B.It will be necessary for you to report at the gym at eleven each day for noon signals; please arrange your recitations to this end.

I am writing this because I couldn't see you this afternoon; hope you are all right.

Yours, "WESLEY BLAIR." Joel read this with a loudly beating heart and flushing cheeks.

It was as unexpected as it was welcome, that news; he _had_ hoped for an occasional chance to substitute Post or Blair or Clausen on the first team in some minor game, but to be taken on as a member was more than he had even thought of since he had found how very far from perfect was his playing.

He seized his cap with the intention of racing across to Hampton and informing West of his luck; then he remembered the other note.