CHAPTER XVIII.
"PRIN." GETS IN THE PRACTICE If Dodge and Bayliss devoted any time to farewells among their late fellow-students before quitting Gridley the fact did not seem to leak out.
Yet despite the absence of two young men who considered themselves of such great importance the Gridley High School appeared to go on about the same as ever.
It was the season of football, and nearly of the school's interest and enthusiasm seemed to spend itself in that direction.

Coach Morton did all in his power to push the team on to perfection; the other teachers worked harder than ever to keep the interest of the students sufficiently on their studies.

The girls, as well as the boys, suffered from the infection of the gridiron microbe.
Five more games with other High School teams were fought out, and now Gridley had an unbroken record of victories so far for the season.
Such a history can often be built up in the athletics of a High School, but it has to be a school attended by the cream of young manhood and having an abundance of public interest and enthusiasm behind it all.
Not at any time in the season did Coach Morton allow the training work to slacken.

Regularly the entire squad turned out for field work.

If the afternoon proved to be stormy, then four blasts on the city fire alarm, at either two o'clock or two-thirty, notified the young men that they were to report at the gym.