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Rh haven't quite made up my mind what I shall do. I'm going to play ball, I know that much, anyhow.

"I should think you would—any fellow who can twirl the horsehide as you can. Well, might as well get off these togs," spoke Dalton. "I won't need 'em here any more this season, though I'm going to join some amateur team for the vacation if I can."

The cheering and yelling kept up for some time; and then with the glorious Blue Banner, that meant so much to them in their possession, the Excelsior Hall lads started back for the school.

"So you don't know what you are going to do next season, eh, Joe?" asked Tom, as he and his chum were riding back. "I thought you'd stick on here."

"Well, I'd like to, first rate but I don't know how dad's business is going to be since this second robbery. I may have to leave school."

"Oh, I hope not. So they haven't any trace of the missing papers and models?"

"Not according to what I last heard. I'm going to get on the trail of that scamp, Holdney, this vacation, though."

As might have been guessed, there was a big banquet for the baseball team that night. And