"He behaved in an abominable way right at the beginning of the critical game.

He's a traitor." "Give Drayne the cut ?" repeated Wadleigh, slowly, before a group of the fellows.

"Perhaps, in one way, he deserved it, but-----" "Well, what can you find to say for a fellow who acted like that ?" demanded Hudson, impatiently.
"Drayne helped to win the game for us," replied Wadleigh moderately.
"Had he played Filmore would have downed us---of that I'm sure, as I look back.

Drayne's conduct put Prescott on the gridiron, didn't it?
That was what saved the score for us." At the time of Grace Dodge's great peril, her banker father had been away on a business trip.

It was two days later when word was finally gotten to the startled parent.