"You know well enough that the little band of chums who have been nicknamed Dick & Co.

don't try to run things in the High School.

You know, too, Drayne, if you'll be honest about it, that my chums and I have sometimes sacrificed our own wishes to what seemed to be the greatest good of the school." "Then who is the man who has worked to put me on the shelf in football ?" insisted the other boy, eyeing Dick menacingly.
"Yourself, Drayne!" "What are you talking about ?" cried Drayne, more angry than before.
"Don't be blind, Drayne," continued the young captain.

"And don't be silly enough to pretend that you don't know just what I mean.
You remember last Thanksgiving Day ?" "Oh, that ?" said Drayne, contemptuously.

"Just because I wouldn't do just what you fellows wished me to do?
"I was there," pursued Captain Prescott, "and I heard all that was said, saw all that was done.