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Rh as the most promising player for the vacant end position, and day after day he coached him patiently, and tried to put "spirit" into him. It was "spirit" that Holder seemed to lack; he was naturally rather slow. Under this careful tuition he was improving, and Herrick seemed himself, through teaching, to learn. When he went into the practice he played better than he had ever done before. Harry Harding and Andrews were having a close race for the position of first substitute; Nat Belmont had been left behind. The team was working together harmoniously. Frank Windsor was doing better as Rupert's representative than he had done as captain of the Corinthians, and he seemed to be better liked. Once more a feeling of confidence began to prevail throughout the school. The boys began to say that even without Rupert they could beat St. John's.

It was rumored that Rupert, lying in bed, had devised some startling tricks which were to be the destruction of the enemy, and that the daily council which the eleven held in his