And your other friend, Miss Winnie,
has been very good, too! I hope you are quite well, Mr. Merriwell!"
"Quite well! Don't let me disturb you. Inza was reading to you. Let her
go on. I will sit here in this chair."
So Inza read again, until the old woman was tired; after which the trio
left the house, and walked down to the car line, where they took a car
for the residence of the Honorable Fairfax Lee.
"I went to Lee's to see you," Frank explained, "for I wanted to talk
over some details of the trip to New London and the June races. The
mascot of the crew hasn't been down to the boat-house this week. And I
wanted to invite both of you, and Winnie, to the ball-game Saturday
forenoon."
"I am sorry about Bart!" Inza exclaimed. "But he will come round all
right, don't you think?"
"He may not play in this game, but he will see how foolish he is, and be
heartily ashamed of it by and by."
"Who is to catch for you, then?"
"Jack Ready!"
"What?"
"Perhaps you haven't seen Ready catch? He is a good one!"
"You need a strong battery, Frank!" Elsie asserted.
"Yes, like you and Hodge," nodded Inza. "I'm afraid Badger and Ready
will not be able to work well together. They haven't played together
before, I believe?"
Inza was full of bright, snappy conversation, as they sped homeward in
the car with Merriwell.
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