"No, Sir," said Dunn, with impressive deliberation, answering the look on his father's face, "Cameron is no quitter.

He didn't funk.

I think," he continued, while Rob's tear-stained face lifted eagerly, "I know he was out of condition; he had let himself run down last week, since the last match, indeed, got out of hand a bit, you know, and that last quarter--you know, Sir, that last quarter was pretty stiff--his nerve gave just for a moment." "Oh," said the doctor in a voice of relief, "that explains it.

But," he added quickly in a severe tone, "it was very reprehensible for a man on the International to let himself get out of shape, very reprehensible indeed.

An International, mind you!" "It was my fault, Sir, I'm afraid," said Dunn, regretfully.