"Duty is the main thing there is about life, isn't it ?" "Right again," laughed Purcell.
One of the girls looked swiftly at the other.

They were Laura Bentley and Belle Meade, friends of Dick's and Dave's, and also members of the junior class.
"Well, I'm going to take a leaf out of your book," pursued Purcell.
"I'm really as anxious to see Gridley High School always on top as you or any other fellow can be." "Of course you are," nodded Dick.

"The way you put our baseball team through last season proves that." "I'm going to be a martinet for training, hereafter," Purcell declared earnestly.

"I'm going to be a worse stickler than old coach himself.

And I'm going to exercise my right as a senior to watch the other fellows and hold their noses to the training grindstone." "Then I'm not worried about Gridley having a winning team this year," Dick answered.
"By Jove, you had a lot to do with that, too, didn't you, Prescott ?" cried Purcell.