150—Dick Merriwell’s Best Work 151—Dick Merriwell’s Distrust 152—Dick Merriwell’s Debt 153—Dick Merriwell’s Mastery 154—Dick Merriwell Adrift 155—Frank Merriwell’s Worst Boy 156—Dick Merriwell’s Close Call 157—Frank Merriwell’s Air Voyage 158—Dick Merriwell’s Black Star 159—Frank Merriwell in Wall Street 160—Frank Merriwell Facing His Foes 161—Dick Merriwell’s Stanchness 162—Frank Merriwell’s Hard Case ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dick Merriwell’s Fighting Chance OR THE SPLIT IN THE VARSITY By BURT L. STANDISH Author of the famous Merriwell stories. [Illustration] STREET & SMITH CORPORATION PUBLISHERS 79-89 Seventh Avenue, New York ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright, 1910 By STREET & SMITH ———— Dick Merriwell’s Fighting Chance All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian. Printed in the U. S. A. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DICK MERRIWELL’S FIGHTING CHANCE. --- CHAPTER I A GATHERING IN DURFEE. The comfortable sitting room in Durfee Hall, occupied by Dick Merriwell and his Texas chum, Brad Buckhart, was filled to overflowing. Sprawling among the cushions of the divan was Rudolph Rose, handsome, high-spirited, and rather quick-tempered, but happy in the knowledge that he had at last conquered the latter failing and thereby won a place in Merriwell’s friendship. Close beside him was Terry Baxter, quiet, almost too serious, but with a keen sense of humor which showed in the appreciative gleam in his brown eyes and the occasional terse, pithy remarks which he uttered in a solemn manner, but which invariably sent the others into an uproar. Eric Fitzgerald, slim, slight, and curly haired, dangled his legs from one end of the table. He was so full of vim and life and go that he reminded one of a particle of quicksilver, forever on the move; and on the rare occasions when he did settle down for a moment, he usually perched himself somewhere in a temporary manner, as if he were only pausing for an instant before making another flight.