"We thought--" "What ?" demanded West as the other paused.
"Well, he said that the coach was down on him, and gave his place to your friend here, and--" "No," answered Joel quietly.

"I didn't take his place.

He tried to strike me one day at practice, and Remsen, our coach, put him off.

That was all.

Afterward he--he--But it isn't worth talking about." "But I didn't know that St.Eustace made a practice of taking in cast-off scamps from other schools," said West.