The Gavelyte, October 1909

CEDARVILLE COLLEGE. the penn·wt for Rockland, for a'3 the ball came sailing up Roy stepped for– ward and swung with all his might, there was a crack and the left fielder was raring back toward the left field fence, McClellan came rushing in from third and while Roy was on his w~y to second the ball hit the fence and bounced back into the field past the fie!der. Roy was rounding third as the fielder natched up the ball and fired it home. The coach yelled, "hold your base," but some i,11pulse kept Roy sprinting toward home. He glanced over his shoulder, saw the ball coming, then drew himself togct her and made a head long dive for the plate just as the ball whizzed over his head. The crowd sat motinn!PSS while the dust cleared away and until the umpire called ''safo." Then the name of Roy was on every tongue and the old veteran Mc eil was forgJtten. It was this that cau,;ed McNeil to hurry to the cl ub house and mutter as he entered his room, ''be was taken the honor which should have been mine but he will never get Reth if I have to-" T:1e last words were too low for Scott, who was p'-lssing the door, to hear but he pau sed and called, "what's up now, McNeil." Mc eil looked up with something lik e an oath on his lips but when he Ha v it was Roy's best friend he answe red, "Oh, nothing," and shut the door. Chapter IL YOU WILL HAVE TO DECIDE FOR YOURSELF. "Beth, i.::; that you," asked Gntrude as some one entered her room. She bad thrown hernelf down on the couch without striking a light ad was thinking over her college days and all she was so soon to leave when she packed her trunk for the las_t time. "Take the rocker, Beth," she went on. "Just think, we have been here fo,1r years together and now must part, possibly never to meet again. And, 0, Beth, my oration is going to be a complete failure. I can't remember half of it and it i n'G worth giving. I will be scared out of my wits and fathn i.3 to be there." "Why, Beth," exclaimed Gertrude, "Professor Black said it was good .and you spoke splenctidly. Don't think about being nervous and you will make us all proud of you ." "Well," was the reply, "I will do my best but there will be Roy, McNeil and you and all the others who have done someth ing for the school. But a~ for mE>, f~w will PVPr know who I am. I haw, always stayed in my room