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Rh and inform him of his election at their discretion. If there is no further business, the meeting is adjourned."

The boys slowly dispersed, but a good many of those who knew Harry waited. They had some idea what it had cost him to make this sacrifice, and they wished to say a word which might show their sympathy. But he turned it aside with a laugh.

There had never before been a field-day when so little attention had been given by the spectators to the athletic sports; but that fact in no wise discouraged the contestants. Indeed, they exhibited more than ordinary zeal. This was explained by the two messages which the captains had given their teams at the beginning of the afternoon inside the athletic house.

"Now, fellows, just one thing," said Jim Tilden, captain of the Corinthians. "Remember the President of the United States is out there to look at you."

Tom Eastman, the captain of the Pythians,