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 "Now please tell us about your plan, Lanny," said Nell eagerly.

"I don't know whether my plan is good for as much as twenty-one dollars," responded Lanny dubiously. "I think we may be able to get, say, fifteen, though. The reason I wouldn't say what it was the other night was that I had to consult others about it first; our Head Coach, for one."

"Cut out the prologue, Lanny," advised Gordon. "What's the scheme?"

"Well, they've got a sort of football team across the river called the North Side Athletics. The fellows are mill operatives and that chap Danny Shores, who played ball with us last Summer the time Jack Tappen was suspended, is captain. I met him a week or so ago at the post office and he told me about it. Said they'd like to play us some time. I told him I was sorry, but that our dates were all filled. But it occurred to me the other night that the fellows over there would pay ten or fifteen cents willingly to see their team play the High School, and there are a lot of them, you know. So I thought it would be a good scheme to arrange a game with them a week from Saturday. We go away that day to play Corwin, you know. Saturday's the only day they have