"But he's all the more sure of winning over the Army this year."
"I don't believe either of you youngsters know Darrin as well
as I do," broke in a second classman. "What I'm afraid of is,
if Prescott and Holmes don't play with the soldiers, then Darry
will lose interest in the game to such a degree that even Army
dubs will be able to take his shoestrings away from him. Danny
doesn't enjoy fighting fourth-raters. It's the big game that
he enjoys going after. Why, I'm told that he had simply set his
heart on pushing Prescott and Holmes all the way across Franklin
Field this year."
Readers who are anxious to know why Dick Prescott, one of the
finest of American youths, had been sent to Coventry by his comrades
at the United States Military Academy, will find it all set forth
in the concluding volume of the West Point Series, entitled _"Dick
Prescott's Fourth Year At West Point."_
Strangely enough, the first effect of this news from West Point
was to send the Navy eleven somewhat "to the bad." That is to
say, Dave Darrin, despite his best endeavors, seemed to go stale
from the first hour when he knew that he was not to meet Dick
Prescott on the gridiron.
"Mr. Darrin, what ails you?" demanded coach kindly, at the end
of the second practice game after that.
"I don't know, sir."
"You must brace up."
"Yes, sir."
"You seem to have lost all ambition. No; I won't just say that.
But you appear, Mr.
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