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 "I cal'late this smooth guy, who's had the nerve to stan' up here an' practically swear that he ain't Paul Hazelton, used my offer to boost his value with Mr. Cope, who, I hear, is payin' him outer all reason. Sneaky, underhand work, I call it.  Such a man is dang'r'us, an' I hope that he will be put on the blacklist so that he won't be able to play on any team in the league.  That's the way to fix him."

"I would like," said Locke, "the privilege of examining that letter."

"Let him see it arter the rest have seen it," said Riley. "'Twon't do him no good t' destroy it."

"I have no desire to destroy it," declared Tom, when the letter presently reached his hands and he had glanced it over. "On the contrary, I have a most powerful desire to preserve it carefully; for it is a miserable forgery, and it would give me no little satisfaction to see the scoundrels responsible for its production properly prosecuted for a criminal offense."

"Bah!" snarled Riley. "More of his bluffin'. He must think we're fools t' let him put over anything like that on us. He's trapped, an' he can't wiggle outer it.  Mr. President, I urge immediate action on my protest, and I hope the directors of