She was stepping around the hall with another fellow, for one of the dances, and that was how I came to be out in the air alone.

But I'll look for both you and Holmesy at practice this afternoon," ended "Durry," hastening away.
"Go to a diamond try-out ?" asked Greg when Dick broached the subject.
"Of course I will, and crazy over the chance.

All that has held me back so far, old ramrod, was the fact that you hadn't been invited.
But now that has all been changed." When the diamond squad reported, Lieutenant Lawrence, the head baseball coach, ordered the young men outdoors to the field.
"Come over here, please, Prescott and Holmes," called the coach, who had been conferring in low tones with "Durry." "What positions do you two feel that you would be at your best in ?" "Why, we have conceit enough, sir, to think that we might make at least a half-way battery," smiled Dick.
"Battery, eh ?" repeated Lieutenant Lawrence.

"Good enough! Get out and do it.

Durville, you're one of the real batsmen.