To-morrow we play ball, and I want to be in condition." But Bart Hodge was not in condition to play ball, nor in condition for anything the next day.

When morning came he had a high fever, and the doctor whom Merriwell summoned looked grave.
"He has lost sleep and been exposing himself and caught cold," he said.
"It looks like a case of pneumonia.

Better send him to the hospital." "Will he be better off at the hospital than here, if there is some one here to take care of him ?" "No, I don't know that he will.

And I was going to say that it is really too bad to move him in his condition." "Then he will stay right here.

I'll get the best nurse to be had, and look after him all I can myself!" And Hodge, under the best of care, remained in his room, while Merriwell's nine, with Jack Ready as catcher and Badger as pitcher, went out to meet the team from Hartford that forenoon.
A big crowd of rooters had come over from Hartford to whoop things up for Abernathy's men.