With a gasp, Kenny raised his head and looked straight into Dick’s eyes, which were watching him with an expression of satisfaction and perfect friendship. “Wh-what do you mean?” the quarter back faltered weakly. “Just what I say,” retorted Dick. He threw one arm over Kenny’s shoulder and smiled. “You’re an old bluff!” he repeated. “There wasn’t an earthly thing the matter with you out there. You stumbled on purpose to give Don the ball and let him make the goal. It was a corking thing to do, Jack, and not one fellow in a thousand could have brought himself to it. Didn’t you start out with the idea of making it yourself?” Kenny nodded slowly. “Yes,” he said, in a low tone. “But you saw your chance, and you’ll never regret it,” Dick went on softly. “You’ve evened up the score with Tempest now, and the fellows will never have a chance to say that you were right and he was wrong. It was generous, Jack, and I’m proud of you.” A keen sense of pleasure and satisfaction thrilled Kenny to the heart. Suddenly he looked anxiously at Merriwell. “You won’t tell Don?” he questioned hastily. “Not I!” laughed Dick. His arm still about the quarter back’s shoulder, he turned, and together they disappeared into the track house. THE END. “Frank Merriwell’s Tact,” is the next title, by Burt L. Standish, No. 193 of the MERRIWELL SERIES. It is an unusually good story. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Dealer who handles the STREET & SMITH NOVELS is a man worth patronizing. The fact that he does handle our books proves that he has considered the merits of paper-covered lines, and has decided that the STREET & SMITH NOVELS are superior to all others. He has looked into the question of the morality of the paper-covered book, for instance, and feels that he is perfectly safe in handing one of our novels to any one, because he has our assurance that nothing except clean, wholesome literature finds its way into our lines. Therefore, the STREET & SMITH NOVEL dealer is a careful and wise tradesman, and it is fair to assume selects the other articles he has for sale with the same degree of intelligence as he does his paper-covered books. Deal with the STREET & SMITH NOVEL dealer. STREET & SMITH CORPORATION 79 Seventh Avenue New York City ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ● Transcriber’s Notes: ○ Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected. ○ Typographical errors were silently corrected. ○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book. ○ Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Dick Merriwell's Fighting Chance, by Burt L. Standish