(He was duly elected and underwent rigorous initiation proudly and joyfully.) The kidnaping affair even affected his football standing, for Mills and Devoe and Simson, the trainer, spoke or looked applause, while the head coach thereafter displayed quite a personal interest in him.

Several days subsequent to the affair Neil was taking dummy practise with the rest of the second eleven.

Mills had appropriated the invention of a Harvard trainer, rigging the dummy with hook and eye-bolt, so that when properly tackled the stuffed canvas effigy of a Robinson player became detached from its cable and fell on to the soft loam much after the manner of a human being.

But to bring the dummy from the hook necessitated the fiercest of tackling, and many fellows failed at this.
To-day Neil was one of this number.

Twice the dummy, bearing upon its breast the brown R of Robinson, had sped away on its twenty-foot flight, and twice Neil had thrown himself upon it without bringing it down.