"It isn't in the Gridley blood to wonder if we can win---we've got to win!" After that Dick closed his lips firmly.

He must save his wind for the long cross-country.
On the left the runners were now in a field.

The center was moving along the highway, the right wing being in a field over beyond.
"Wow-oo! wow-oo! wow-oo!" sounded a deep, far-away chorus.
"There's the trail, away over to the right!" shouted Captain Dick.
"Come on, fellows!" On an oblique line he led them, toward the road.

They took a low stone wall on the leap, vaulting the fence at the other side of the road.

The center squad had already overtaken the discoverers of the trail.
"Run easily.