The latter team had a big advantage to start with, since they were already one game to the good.

But Scranton still had faith in Tyree, and if things broke half-way decently in the next game they fully expected to make their adversaries "take their dust," as Thad expressed it.
During this time, of course, the wonderful happenings at the Hosmer cottage had become town talk.

Everybody was greedily drinking in such details of the story as they could manage to gather up.
Acting under the directions of Brother Lu, now known to every one as the rich owner of the Hoover place, Mr.Luther Corbley, Hugh and Thad did not hesitate to relate everything they knew, which, in fact, covered the story from beginning to end.

It thrilled all Scranton, and would be related many times over as weeks and months passed by.
There had never been anything to compare with it in the annals of all Scranton, or any other town in the county, for that matter.
Matilda and Andrew had gone to live in their new home, and the boys were told that they might always "find the latch-string out," as the genial genie of the whole undertaking assured both Hugh and Thad.

He seemed to have taken a decided liking for the chums, and could not see enough of them.