He himself fought more desperately than ever, and once even succeeded in taking the puck away from the triumphant Nick, the only one who attained that glory; only to lose it immediately afterwards to Owen Dugdale, who transferred it to Stevens by way of Hobson; and then it plunged into the cage, despite Leonard's mad attempt to stay its swift flight.
"Who's this you Scranton boys have thrown into the game ?" demanded one chagrined Belleville gentleman, as he saw what a radical change Nick's coming had made in the affair on the ice rink.

"He plays suspiciously like a certain Canadian I saw last winter, who set everybody in New York City wild with his work.

Is Jean La Rue visiting anybody in Scranton; and have you rung him in on us to-day, to send our poor chaps down to defeat ?" "Don't you believe it, Mister," chortled a boy standing near by, whose jersey was decorated with the letters "S.

H.S.," standing, of course, for Scranton High School.

"That fellow is only our Nick Lang, who was born and brought up in our home town.