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" so Ed is going to leave," mused Tom, after a momentous pause. "It sure will make a hole in the team."

"Oh, it's got me all broke up," gloomily declared Kindlings, who was captain of the recently organized eleven. "I don't know what I'm going to do to fill his place, and Mr. Lighten, while he says we'll make out somehow, feels pretty bad over it. But it can't be helped, of course, for Ed has to go."

For the time being, the news of the loss of one of Randall's best football players overshadowed the matter of the missing chair. Tom had changed his mind about going out to see if he could get on the trail of who had taken it, and sat with Kindlings and his two other chums, discussing what could be done to replace Kerr as right half-back.

"Bricktop Molloy might work in there,"