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 But Young consented to go with them at last, and now he went behind the screen to change his clothes, and the others gathered around him, talking to him all at once. "This reminds me," said Lansing "of the time I got caught out in Omaha without a red cent, and I took my banjo out of the case and played, and passed the hat until I had money enough to telegraph home for more; but you had a whole cityful of friends. Why didn't you look us up?"

"Here, Mr. Young," said the manager, who had been informed that Will was Young the ex-football player, and was somewhat impressed by it; "this squares us. I'm sorry you aren't coming any more. I'd pay you seventy-five cents an hour if you'd let me put up a notice in the window saying, 'This is William Young, the famous football player.'"

"Yea-a!" cheered the other fellows, laughing; but Young, although he couldn't help feeling pleased, only frowned and said, "I didn't say I wasn't coming Monday."

"Well, one of the other gentlemen did."