“Prove it.” “We will!” cried Whittaker. “I’ll have the directors of the team get together. They can instruct Lawrence to arrange for the game. Then I presume you’ll squeal on that betting talk you’ve made.” “Hardly.” “Put your money up now, then.” “All right.” “Two hundred to one.” “That’s what I offered. If the game is not played, the bet is off.” They went out and found a stakeholder. The money was put up. On Saturday the Elks returned home and the famous Cuban Giants appeared to play them. The Cuban Giants is one of the strongest colored teams in the country, and the people of Elkton believed the real test of the locals would come in the game with the Giants. Merry knew the directors of the team had held a meeting for the purpose of considering the advisability of playing again with his team, but he could learn nothing as to the result of that meeting. Somehow, after returning to Elkton, Lawrence kept away from Frank, who saw him for the first time Saturday on the baseball field just before the beginning of the game with the Giants. In the presence of the assembled spectators, Frank walked out to the bench and spoke to the Elkton manager, asking if he had decided to give him another game. “Merriwell,” said Lawrence disagreeably, “I never saw a fellow so persistent in seeking a second drubbing. We’ll play you Monday, on one condition.” “Name it.” “The winning team shall take all the gate money.” “Agreed!” said Frank, with a promptness that surprised Lawrence. “It’s settled!” “You won’t get a dollar.” “Don’t worry about me. Will you announce the game here to-day? It will be the best sort of an advertisement.” “Yes, I’ll announce it.” As Frank walked away, Lawrence turned to Wolfers, chuckling: “Didn’t I work that cleverly? The directors instructed me to give him another game. I’d had to have done so on an even break, fifty per cent. to each team, if he had insisted; but I kept away from him and made him so eager he was willing to take terms of any sort. We’ll get all the boodle.” Cutts went in to pitch the game, and for five innings he had the heavy-hitting colored boys at his mercy. In the sixth inning he went to pieces and gave the Giants five base bits, which netted three runs. At that time the Elks had five scores. Wolfers warmed up at once. He was greeted with tumultuous cheers when he walked out to pitch at the beginning of the sixth. The colored boys were stayers. They laughed heartily over the applause given Wolfers. “We’ll put him into the stable quicker than we did the other fellow,” said the captain of the Giants. “Get right after him, boys. Knock his eye out. He’s a man with a swelled head. You can see it in the way he walks.” But when Wolfers struck out the first three batters to face him, pitching only eleven balls, they began to realize that they were up against a wizard. The joy of the spectators was boundless. The man from Wisconsin was cheered madly as he struck out the third man.