: Rivals for the Team: A Story of School Life and Football by Barbour Ralph Henry Relyea C M Charles M Illustrator - Adventure stories; Boarding schools Juvenile fiction; Football stories

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FACING PAGE

"'I'm Ordway'" 38

"That avenue of escape was out of the question" 92

"'You're off,' said Hugh. 'May I have that, please?'" 288

RIVALS FOR THE TEAM

AFTER PRACTICE

"I'd hate to live up here in summer, Bert," said Ted Trafford, carefully easing his five feet and ten inches of tired, aching body to the window-seat and turning a perspiring face to the faint breeze that entered. "It must be hotter than Tophet."

"Well, it's up high enough to get the air, isn't it?"

"Wonder why slate stairs seem harder than others," said Nick Blake, fanning himself with a magazine.

"I had one last year in 19. It was only a bother. If I had a fire the ashes got all over the shop. Besides, it was always so warm in the room that when I wanted one I had to keep all the windows open. There's dandy steam heat in Lothrop."

"Oh, get out, Ted!" interrupted Nick. "I've been in your study when the thermometer wasn't over fifty! Everyone knows that Trow's a regular barn in cold weather."

"Trow's older than this, isn't it?" asked Bert Winslow. He had yielded the window-seat to his visitors and was stretched out on the leather cushions of a Morris chair, the back of which he had lowered to the last notch. It was very warm in Number 29, for the study was on the top floor of the building and overhead the September sun had been shining all day on the slate roof. Then, too, since the Fall Term did not begin for two days yet, all but a few of the rooms were closed and what little breeze there was found scant circulation. Bert had opened the door and windows of 32, across the corridor, and that helped to some extent, but Lothrop Hall seemed to have caught all the heat of the past summer and to be bent on hoarding it on the top floor.

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