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226 heard the speech. "Now, fellows, just one thing," he said, with quick defiance in his voice, and Corinthians as well as Pythians paused to listen. "Remember—Rupert Ormsby is out there to look at you."

And because of these two facts the eyes of the school and of the visitors were turned away much of the time from the young athletes, who were running and jumping and putting the shot.

Most of them gazed at the gentleman in the silk hat who sat next to the rector in the middle of the stand. But although he held the attention of so many, there was always a little gathering about an open carriage which was drawn up close to the track, and in which sat a boy, pale and thin, yet with a happy eagerness shining in his blue eyes.

Harry finished fourth in the half-mile run. He had hoped to do better than that, but when it was all over he did not feel very much disappointed. He dressed as quickly as he could, and hurried out to join his mother and Clark. They were sitting not very far from the Presi-