“Oh, well, I guess he’s all right, then,” said Kirk. “I asked because――――” He stopped, looked thoughtfully puzzled a moment and then, nodding, went out. “Wonder what Cotton’s done to him,” said Gerald cheerfully. “If I were a punster I’d say it was evident Kirk doesn’t cotton to him. But I’m not, and so I won’t. Did I hear you murmur your thanks?” “Eh?” asked Kendall blankly. “Well, where have you been? Still thinking of what a wonderful time you had on the river?” Gerald seemed a little disgruntled over that. “No, I was just――just thinking.” What he had been thinking was that if he succeeded in making the _Scholiast_ and the Golf Team, he would be a pretty busy chap the rest of the year! Just how the trick played on Gibson of Broadwood got out is not known. Neither Gerald nor Kendall divulged it, and The Duke refused to own to having spoken of the matter. But get out it did, for by Monday the whole school knew about it and was laughing delightedly. Even the _Scholiast_, most dignified of school publications, could not forebear a fling and the next issue contained at the bottom of a page this brief note: “The Broadwood Academy Press announces for early publication ‘Personal Recollections of Booth’; by Gibson.” Football practice on Monday was hard and long. Several second string players were temporarily promoted to the First Team, for a number of the regulars were still showing the effects of Saturday’s game. Kendall played two periods and then yielded his position to Fayette and was sent off. On Tuesday, however, strains and bruises were healed and the First Team lined up as on Saturday, with the exception that Adler was in place of Metz at right end. Oliver Colton, a former Yardley captain, arrived on Tuesday and stayed until the end of the week, putting in three days of hard coaching. Under his tuition the guards and tackles improved perceptibly. The first serious accident of the season happened Wednesday, when Lin Johnson, center of the Second Team, broke a shoulder blade and did it in such a messy way that there was no question of any more football for him that season. Ireland, who had been playing full-back on Hough’s team, took Johnson’s place, but he didn’t make much of a center and the First, when it wanted a gain through the middle of the opposing line, spoke of taking “a short trip through Ireland.” But the Second struggled on gamely and, if it was no longer able to score touchdowns on the First, sometimes got a field-goal over.