9/17 "It's plain we have wasted our time in coming here to-day." "It looks that way from the road. Why couldn't the blamed chumps keep still, so he could show what he is made of ?" "It's ten to one he won't be able to find the plate for five minutes. I believe I can see him shaking from here." The Harvard crowd had never heard of Merriwell, and they regarded him with no little interest as he walked into the box. When the Yale spectators were through cheering Harvard took it up in a derisive way, and it certainly was enough to rattle any fellow with ordinary nerves. He paid no attention to the cheers of his friends or the jeers of the other party. |