| ._ il ha i NG. G 7” u ,UNG HIM AT THE Se a S ~ » =>} & THE CAUGHT 2L MERRIWE oa ea aia aiaaed . as — el Z Oye aha eee ere hele eliglanieMneiieetin? peda aries. heft She is one of the finest amateur pitchers in holding the earnest discussion. ‘‘ Prince. this country, and he will make monkeys ton is not so many, and Finch is not the “AN IDEAL PUBLICATION FOR THE AMERICAN YOUTH.” Tie Top WEEKLY. Issued Wee kiyv—By Subs erij 110n $2.50 per year Entered as Second Class Matter at the NN. rier & SmrryH, 238 William St, N. VY. Entered Aceording to Act of Ct magress, int} Year 1898, in the Office of the fF: Ccuct or tema, J ishinglon, DEC- Treowry rc 7 . oO No. go. NEW YORK, January 1, 1895. Price | Five -C ents. Contents of This Number. Page. FRANK MERRIWELL’ J DOUBLE SHOOT; or, Winning in the Box - - - = = 4. A NEW CONTEST - - = - : 5 3 ‘ 29, TALKS WITH TIP TOP READERS : : : : - : . ; - - . 29. TRAPS FOR UNWARY STUDENTS . - : - . : : : - . 30, HE DID HIS SHARE - ; - - - . : : . : 30, SETTLED WITH A SYRINGE - - : ; - - - : - . : 31, THEY FIGHT EACH OTHER : : : - - - : - - : 31. OR, Winning in the Box. By the Author of ‘‘FRANK MERRIWELL.”’ CHAPTER I. of Yale’s ordinary batters, while our best men will stand a poor show against him.’ k ‘‘How did Princeton get hold of such a ‘“Poor old Yale!’ said Ben Halliday, faliow.2h meted. Halliday mournfully. “Poor old Yale!’ echoed Dismal Jones, with something like a sob. “Oh, what’s the use of squealing be- : 66 / inte hz ee Bote we bnow: whether. we are huft or If we could prove that we could end — Sot 2 oried Puss Parker: “Old Eli has a his career as a pitcher in the college 2a ae Sa j i c id Es way of coming out on top at the last mo- league,”’ said Halliday BASEBALL TALK. ‘‘T don’t know, but I am willing to bet something that. his tuition does not cost * , : ? him anything. ment.” “But it can’t be proved,’’ said Pooler, “It’s a mighty slim show she has now,”’ quickly, ‘f‘and so Princeton has us by the said Pink Pooler, and it almost seemed neck”? that there was something like satisfaction ‘‘T wouldn’t bet that way if I could get in his voice. ‘‘If she can’t do better than odds,’? grunted Bruce Browning, as he beat little Williams by one score, what came loafing up to the fence on the Yale can she do against Princeton. Nat Finch campus, where the little knot of lads were © 1 o.. 2 ; FRANK MERRIWELL’S DOUBLE only shirt in the laundry. He can be done pe so t 4 up by Yale,’’ de- ra cigare tte. Ben Halli- ‘what is with you? You talk as if anx- ‘*He’ll never be done clared Pooler, lighting **Look day, turning the inatter ious for Princeton to beat Yale.”’ » here, man!’ cried > sharply on Pink, ‘“That’s so,’? nodded Jones, giving Pooler a sour look. ? “Vou ought to know better than that, said Pink, protestingly ; “but I have got eves, and I do know about baseball. When Yale beatAittle Will ‘she is not going to stand much of a show something has a struggle to e iains in a practice game, in the college league.”’ ‘ ] grunted. Browning ¢ ““Huah! Yale _ weak at the beginnin: Of > > is a Saale fin has a way of starting out of the season and making ish. You forget that, Pooler,’ “No, but that does not happen every time.’ “Pretty Ct? near it.’’ ‘here was a time, not so many moons agone,’’ way, one weak point was behind the bat.”’ “'That’s been began piawial Jones, in his queer ‘when it was thought that Yale’s settled,’? said Browning. “Oh, I don’t know,’’ grinned’ ‘Pooler. ““What’s the matter with Hodge?’ quickly asked Halliday. that saved the declared Parker. _ “It was his pretty work game with Will x cop hat’s once,”’ ‘*Merriwel along.’? ‘“Merriwell iains, said Pooler, meaningly. 1 says he can do it rivht says many things.”’ can bet your life that what he says goes!’’ came with unusual warmth (CT) > from SS 1 ve seen Hodge w ork “And you “They say ge eg a Chadd temper, ’’ said Pink. ‘‘Sometimes he gets mad and \ surely it isn’t sense to think SHOOT, co ‘“He is a good sneered Pooler. the think he’s a phenom. ‘*He has done some phenomenal work, ‘“Take the football riwell! seein to It makes me tired !”” man, but most of fellows said Parker. game with——”’ es O35 0 You f don’t seem to get over that football game.’? . ‘‘He did some fine that’s ancient history! fel- lows twirling last season.’ the last hard “‘And spoiled his arm in game he pitched. ”’ ‘It didn’t. look. that ed for the ‘scrub’ when he against the regu- gaine of it. It was in fine trim.” way pitche lars and made a struck me that he draw ‘*He worked for all there was in-him .that day,’’ declared Pooler, ‘‘and I have it strai oht that he has been tending his arm since then as if it were a sick’ baby. He does it up in arnica and witch hazel, and keeps it bandaged all the time. He wasn’t in condition to go in and save the Williams game.”’ ‘‘He didn’t have to,’ ing. "He was Hodge’s three-bagger in the ninth that brought in two scores when two men were out, and saved the I claim that That being the case, grunted Brown- vas needed badly enough. It gaine,: hit was an accident. it was an accident that beat Williams. If Merriwefl could have and saved the game, why didn’t they put him in?”? MPT tell Parker. “They wete saving him. and they wanted to test the stuff in Haggerty -and Wal- bet: 3 ; ‘You know Haggerty sa weak points of men,’ said Halliday. was be ept in so long.’ ‘Well, Williams didn’t doa tntag to Mr. Haggerty!’ grinned Pink. hammered beautifully, and Walbert fully as bad. will say those two men are no gone in you, why,’ said id he knew the almost all the Williams ‘“That was why he J ) they used a “He was - Any one with sense good, and ~ Metriwell | ba: 4 i J bam 4 > q ee BS I ALI ‘(TL * ae yawned Browning. lf you did, you ' FS a ss . al c 1 sexs bens be Wouid not be in such a nurry to judge I 90CETTY 2 Hageerty a1 The best 4 1. %. : body can hit them, - 4 % : j PTt oe come 1 1) st expected. There is nothing 1 first-class base- ball pitcher. He niay gaines, and then, for no win a dozen hard apparen £— reasoa i, lase one that everybody considers dead , 7 ; easy. Pooler knew this was true, but he felt the sting of the big fellow’s slowly drawled words, and he snapped: soe 33 § about baseball as you do. guarantee that I know as much You did play on the ‘scrub’ with Merriwell, but you didn’t work. If are not the most wide have any you had—well, you awake man in col- seve, Pooler felt that he was safe in making this talk, for himself st Browning would not exert ifficiently to resent it by personal violence. Tt Beyond a grunt, Bruce did not seem to resent it at all. Parker hastened to say something. “TY don’t thin frightened k there is any reason why because Prince- ist the while we we should be tou put up a good game agai New made That Yorks to start off with, a poor showing against Williams. doesn’t settle it.’? ‘‘Last year New York beat the packing ” said Hal- college chain- out of us at the Polo Grounds, li day, tite pionship-just the same.’ “That only how much stronger Princeton is than we are.’ * “It goes to show that you can’t tell what Yale will do by the way she starts off. 2 “Vil tell you this; said Bruce; ‘*Hodge works much better with Merri- 4 ‘hut we won goes to show FRANK MERRIWELD’S : DO UBLE SHOOT. well In the box than with anybody else, Gere hody an ee ee ae ws fi: see Ke Peta... | sets FRANK MERRIWELL’S DOUBLE SHOOT. 5 toinjure Frank, but he never came out a voice, and Bart Hodge joined the group. openly like an honorable foe. Of the two. fellows, Fink but that was not Pooler was far the more manly, saying much for him. was angry. He Bruce Browning grasped Pooler by the collar and shook him till his teeth rattled together. ‘You envious whelp!’’ roared the big fellow. ‘‘You know Frank Merriwell is not troubled with the swelled head. What you deserve isa punch in the jaw, but I'd be ashamed if I gave it to you, so you get off without it.”’ Then he gave Pooler a fling that sent the fellow staggering. All were astounded by this display of energy on Browning’s part, for it wasa rare thing that anything could arouse hiin. But Bruce was loyal to Frank Merri- well, He had been Frank’s foe when Merry first came to Yale, but, when he was dropped a class and found himself received ina manly manner by Merriwell, he suddenly changed from a foe toa stanch friend. No one but Frank seemed able to handle the big lazy fellow, but Merri- well could do anything with Bruce. He even succeeded_in inducing him to play first base on the ‘‘scrub’’ ball team, and Browning had not made a single error. Pooler ground his teeth together and eave Browning a fierce look, but he let it go at that, for he knewthe big fellow . was strong as a giant. ‘‘Merriwell will make a good captain,” said Ben Halliday. ‘‘He has a knack of getting more out of a lot of fellows than anybody I know. If they’ put him in Hardy’s place, the nine will not suffer.”’ ‘It wouldn’t surprise me a bit if you were right,’ purred Sidney Gooch. ‘Tam not going to give up that Hardy can’t play at all till I hear it from his iips,’? said Parker. “You may as well give it up,’’ declared “It is straight goods, fellows. I’ve just had a talk with Captain Hardy.”’ They turned eagerly to the dark-faced, proud-looking lad, and plied him with questions. All he could tell them was substantially the same as they had learned from Gamp. Captain Hardy had been ex- amined by competent physicians, and he had been ordered to drop baseball and refrain from all kinds of violent exertion. ‘It’s ashame!’’ groaned Jones. ‘‘Just at this time Yale can’t afford to lose a sin- gle good man.”’ 3 ‘*Don’t you worry a bit,’’ said Hodge. ‘If Merriwell is made captain of the team, Yale will not lose anything. I know Phil Hardy is a dandy, but Frank Merriwell is another.”’ Somebody laughed shortly. Hodge looked round quickly, his -face flushing crimson. | “Taugh!’’ he exclaimed. ‘‘I know what I am talking about! I have traveled with Frank Merriwell, and he is all right.” ‘‘Rrom his head up,’’ said a voice. ‘‘Oh, it’s you is it, Pooler. Well, you are the one I’d expect would make such a remark.”’ scornfully and Pooler strode forward, scowling blackly. “Why, you miserable fool!’ he snarled; ‘‘do you dare talk to me like that? PUu—Piu-——”’ 7 Hodge looked Pink straight in the eyes. ‘“‘T am going to tell you now that I do— not think but little of you, Mr. Pooler,” he said. ‘‘You are always'croaking. Now — you are howling about Yale’s ball team. — I’m willing to bet fifty dollars that Yale — beats Princeton tfiext Saturday, and I’ll. bet fifty more she wins the college chaim-. pionship.’’ | Pooler was digging down pockets. 2 a ‘‘Money talks!’ he cried. “It’s a into his. 6 ERANK MERRIWELL’S DOUBLE shame to rob a fool, everything. -it-in the ‘tT Put it in Here is my money. I'l] put hands of Gooch. Halliday’s hands and f cover it,’? said Hodge, hotly “All right. Dm suits wil] not fussy. me,’ covered. The money was staked and CHA PP Hite 1d; THE. DOUBLE SHOOT. ‘‘You have speed to burn, Merry,’’ j cried Bart Hodge, as he rounded upon catching a ball that had come flying like -a bullet from Frank ‘“There must be powder whistlers.’’ Frank laughed. Merriwell’s hand. 1 I behind those His hat, coat and vest were off, and he was perspiring freely. To- gether with Bart, he was putting ina little practice. Frank was in the pink of condition. His eyes were clear and bright, his complexion almost girlish in its pink- -and-white, while all were firm arm, his legs, arms, muscles, and hard. The flesh of his the sleevé was rolled back, was white as marble. Merriwell had studied hard from which all winter, but, for all of reports to the contrary, re- he did not permit his physical condition to dete- riorate. Each day he put in enough hard systematic work to keep himself in good condition, , “Some of the fellows who have been croaking about your ‘dead wing’ will drop ports circulated by his enemies, dead when they see you shoot ’em over,”’ said Hodge, his face glowing with en- thusiasm and earnestness. “There are always croakers, Bart,” said Frank, indifferently. ‘‘A fellow isa fool if he permits them to bother hith.’’ » “They make me thundering mad.’’ “Mustn’t notice them.”’ “'Can’t help it.”” - “Can if you try.” “No, Iam not built like you’? but I can’t stand” SHOOT, “It all comes of practice. If you keep trying, in a short time you get so you do not notice it at all. Get onto this twist, old man, ”? Then F jum] with held feet on the ground, and sent in a ball that made Bare blink and gasp. ‘“Palk about Hodge. SS Why, dodger! How’d you do it, Frank? or did my eyes fool me?”’ Merriwell laughed surprise. ‘Tt call that my double shoot,’’ he ex- plained. ‘‘I’]l.give it to you again.”’ Bart tossed back the bali, and Frank carefully wound his fingers round it; made the whizzing through th rank made a ing his body, but his mueligkolag cried that one wasa regular hearti over Bart’s then sending it e air again. This time Hodge dodged and let it go past. ‘Scissors!’ he cried. ‘‘That fooled me. I thought it was the other way. It took a queer shoot on the last end.”’ Again Frank laughed. ‘“That was the double way,’’ he said, | Hodge trotted back to the netting and got the ball. As he came jumping motion, going down with it, he said: ee . “I'd like to know when you got onto that quirk, I’ve heard of ‘zigzag curve . pitching,’ but Enever took any stock in it. I don’t see how it is possible to give a ball two motions, so it will curve in and then an and curve out without stopping.’ ‘I discovered the trick bs accident, ??. confessed Frank. ‘‘It’s a hard one, and no man can useit much, for it-will knock the stuffing out of his wrist if he does. You know a drop-ball pitcher himself up. Well, this is worse on a fel- low than pitching the drop.’ ‘‘What does it do??? ‘‘Makes the back of the wrist ee soon ses right here,’? and Frank touched the spot.’ motion « curve the other Tae ? ‘ ~ nana ++ SI eta: Bam sei SONS Pap ee 5 i a a TEESE 8 0 RU th eee rere SRE Pane vee n 1S ay ete re a SERRE ey ee ll a ae Tibi pneNitine Decale. pore: Pn ncnitig | Une bie « Sade, Sh Re, eens anes os FRANK ‘There is a snap to it that does the job. ke motion of the ball when it leaves the fingers gives it one curve, and the other curve is given to it by the snap of the wrist.’ 2 “Say, Merry. >? (OV ¢ S. 9 ‘Don’t tell anybody about this. ri Don ‘*Because 1f you do, they won’ > 2 "t worry. t believe it. There’s not one old ball player ina hundred who will believe any pitcher can make a ball curve in and out without stopping. There is such a thing as an out-drop, but a double-shoot—Great 1 scott! it will be the sensation of the season !”? 2 “TI don’t “*T shoul c “Tt will be a great thing on som propose to use it much.’ 1 say not!” . e occa- sions.’? ‘You bet! Why, it’l] paralyzea batter! He’ll think 3 Frank pitched two more of those queer saying he did 9) he’s got ’em. curves, and then stopped, not dare to follow it up, for fear of hurt- ing his wrist. ‘Look here, Merry,’ cried - Bart; ‘youll have to let me know when you are going to do that, or I'l have a passed And I want to know what the Can you pitch a ball sure final rise and a drop the sameas you do this in curve will be, too. and out ?’?’ Frank shook his head. ‘‘T have tried all sorts of ways, but I san’t pitch a ball that will have a double some fellow motion up and down. may strike it sometime, but I am in- clined to think it an impossibility.’? ‘Did you ever see a pitcher who could pitch a double-shoot before you ?”? Paves.> “Who?” ‘*Billy Mains.’? ‘*Who’s Billy Mains?” “‘He’s a tall, MERRIWELL’S angular Yankee from Maine—Windhaim is 9) somewhere down in the town, I believe. ‘Where did you see Ge y 1 With the ‘*T don’t remember hiim.’’ > (meet iY Bostons. ‘‘He was not given a fair trial. He pitched the last three innings of the open- game at Boston between Boston and Baltimore last season. The first Baltimore batter to face Mains. thought he had the jiin-jams sure, for Mains started an out- shoot, and, while the batter stood -with his stick poised, expecting the bali would the sphere off the end of his. bat.’ The fellow was so pass. two feet beyond the plate, curved in round his neck anc astonished he dropped his bat and fell down himself trying to get out of the way “after the ball had passed. He may have thought from the curves it had that it might turn round and come back iis way. I was sitting inthe grand stand-directly behind the catcher, so I plainly saw ae double curve of the ball. A hundred othets saw it, and half of them uttered cries of astonishment. One old man said he had been following baseball for seven- teen years, but never had he seen any- thing like that before. Right then I re- solved to find out how to make that curve, and I have been working at it ever sthce One day, when I wasn’t thinking of it, I happened to throw an out with a peculiar ‘snap of my wrist. Isaw it take the double curve, and I was lucky enough to remem- ber just how I did it. After that I kept at it till I was sure of throwing it when I wauted to, but I tryed it so much I came near knocki ing my wrist out.”’ That's it!” cried. Bart. the story started that you hada ‘dead wing.’ The fellows lamed your arm, but they did not see how you did it with the amount of throw- ing you did.”’ ‘“’The wonder to not lame it more. I was working at it al- together too much.’? - , Thats how knew you had : me now is that I did oat WE * x8 cet ““This Mains, what became of him???’ y ‘Oh, he has been in the New England ; League and the Eastern League since his trial with Boston.”’ ‘‘Do you consider him a good man ?”? ‘‘He has one bad fault.”’ ‘What's that?’? ‘*He’s wilder than a hawk at times, and he is liable to weaken or go to pieces when the batters fall But for that, he is fast enough for the National League. [ consider him a better man than on - hii. lots of pitchers in the National League, and he will get there some day, too.”’ **I should think his double-shoot would land him in the big league.”’ **T don’t control it. and, after he uses it, he seems to get wild tight away. It knocks him out.’? — ‘Isn’t it going to do that with you, Merry ?”’ “Can't tell,’’ confessed Frank. ‘‘Tf it does, I won’t use it except on a pinch at . the very last end of a game when every- _— thing depends on striking out a good bat- ter. It will be valuable if I don’t use it more than three or four times for the sea- son.” Hodge nodded. “It might save the championship. No- body can tell. What do you know about ‘Nat Finch, the new Princeton man ?’’ believe he can ‘‘Nothing save what I have heard in the way of gossip and what I have read __ in the papers.”? ‘(Rverybody seems to think he’s a ter- | OR But he will 9) not have such a reputation. _ have his bad days, like the rest of us. _ “Wecan’t expect to win the pennant ‘on his bad days.”’ “Not much... Harvard is not making such a blow as Princeton, but she will put a strong team in the field,” “T know she will be in it with both FRANK MERRIWELL’S DOUBLE SHOOT. * He must be a good man, or he would ‘What do you know about Harvard?” feet. To-day I consider Harvard fully as dangerous as Princeton.”’ ‘*She is not generally considered so.’’ ‘“‘T know it, but Harvard-is coming in If Yale does not win the pennant this year, Harvard will.” these days. I'll tell you something. Hodge was surprised, and he showed it, for, like others, he had regarded Prince- ton as Yale’s most dangerous rival. Never before had he heard. Frank so freely ex- press an opinion as to the situation. Bart knew Frank well enough to feel confidence in his judgment on baseball. ‘‘Where is Harvard’s strong point?’ he asked. ‘““The whole team,’’ declared Frank. ‘They are not making a great howl over one pitcher, for they have two good men left over from last season, besides any new men that may develop. Reports from Cambridge say they are putting in plenty of practice. They are getting in team work, and team work pays. A nine of brilliant individual players will often be slaughtered by an inferior nine simply be- cause the Jatter is well up in team work. vale should have more practice in team work, I think.”’ ‘*Perhaps you’ll have a chance to take charge of her practice, Hardy is out of it, and+-~—”’ ‘“There’s very little chance for me,”’ said Frank, quietly. “Why not???» ‘*Because the only way I would accept the position is on certain conditions, and the committee will never agree to those conditions, ”’ CHAPTER LY. RATTLETON’S WARNING, Hodge felt no little curiosity to know what those couditions were, but, as Mer- riwell did not show an inclination to state them, he refrained from asking questions... Bart had begun to understand Frank You know Phil a a ew puma heidi rt haps a the b ‘ani danas, Shien =e rao <<. ae, wp ~~ i Seer athena efit Wiaptiagme ™ ee — ete ate Alte SO a oN tn ame at LT very well, and he could tell when Merry wished to talk and when -he chose to be silent. With rare Hodge seldom attempted to induce Frank good judgment, to talk when he showed a. disposition to be reticent. down his sleeve and He felt that he had practiced quite enough for the time. Just then Harry Rattleton park and approached hurriedly, his face Merriwell rolled picked up his coat. entered the betraying no small amount of excitement. “JT want to. Merry you, see—I mean I want to see you, Merry,’’ he spluttered. ‘All right,’’ smiled Frank. ‘‘Here I ain. Take a good look at me.”’ ‘“Want to tell you something. ‘*T will listen. Harry cast a quick glance at’ Bart. ‘“Want to tell it to you privately, said. Bart turned and strolled away, pulling 9 » he a on his coat. “‘Fire will hear you.’ away,’’ said Frank. ‘‘No one _Rattleton seemed troubled about begin- ning. He and burst forth staminered some, then FRANK MERRIWELL’S ‘“Don’t you do it, Marry—don’t you do it! It’s a put up job! Don’t you do it!’? “Tf you’ll tell me what Frank, ‘‘I may be able to tell you if there is any danger that I will do it.” it is,’’? smiled ‘“They’re going to try to run you in.’ ‘“How run me in? ‘No, no! Run you in nine,’ “Oh, is that what you are driving at?” ‘Yes. I am, dead onto the grooked came—I mean the crooked game !?? Arrest -ine ?”’ captain of the Harry was so excited that he twisted himself badly. ““What.is the crooked Frank. ‘‘You are talking in “‘Tt’s a plot!” ‘“What kind of a plot?” ‘A plot to put you in disggace. ra N44 oO) enigmas, ay ow?” game ?’’ asked DOUBLE SHOOT. 9 think the now stands no show of win- ‘“Kverybody most seems to team we have ning the pennant.’ ** Well?” ““That’s why captain. ”’ ‘Think ‘“*Know so, I’m bet Phil Hardy paid that doctor something to for- Hardy is a sh ae one. He saw Yale stood no show, and h was sick. He wanted to get out, and he took that way of crawling.”’ Frank shook ‘*T don’t want tothink that of Hardy,”’ he soberly think any man that much a sneak. No, Rattles, you are dead wrong about Phil.”’ they want to run you in so?” 1Y 1y ex willing to bid him from playing. his head. said. ‘‘I don’t want to “I’m red dead right!’ excitedly declared Harry. dight—I mean ‘fVYou have too in human nature. You crooked till it is and then you don’t like to much confidence never will think a man proven for you, believe it.”? ‘‘What’s the use? ‘‘T dislike man nature shattered—I refuse to have it shattered. JI know there is than bad in the world. is forever looking for ’ said Frank, quietly, to have my confidence in hu- more good ~ The person who is the one. and he has no the bad who never sees the good, one but himself to blame. ee, a? sut you area thundering times!’ blurted Rattleton. ‘‘I don’t eare a continental if you punch my head for saying so, but you are Instead of showing anger at these plain wofds, Frank beamed in a sunny manner, his red lips parting to show his gleaming white teeth. | “You are jolly original to-day, old man,’’ he said, merrily. tne.”’ . ‘‘Oh, say!’? snapped Harry. ‘There isn’t anything to laugh-about. I am in earnest. Now, look here, Frank, I want to tell you something. By chance he I am no pessi- fool some- a fool sometimes !”? ‘You surprise _ 10 FRANK MERRIWELL’S DOUBLE SHOOT. soine of your particular admirers talking about you.”’ ‘Who were they?’ . ‘‘Gordan, Gooch, Pooler, Paulding and Marline.”’ ‘‘Marline’s all right.’’ ‘‘T should think so!’’ burst forth Harry. ‘‘He’s the fellow who was going to kill you!” j ‘Ty afar duel.?’ “Oh, he’s a bloodthirsty dog!” “He has seemed friendly enough since our encounter.”’ | ‘‘Hasn’t dared be any other way. . He was in the gang, and he doesn’t like you any too much. He thinks you are holding your head too high, and he’d like to see you taken down several pegs.’’ ‘Well, what were they saying?’’) ‘«Saying Hardy got out because he saw Yale did not havea show this season. Saying that you would be made captain, and that you’d get all the blame for Yale’s hard luck. They laughed over it like fiends. Oh, they were having a jolly time down.’ Frank’s lips closed and were pressed together. A hard, resolute look settled on his face, and still he stailed. ‘There was confidence in that smile, and there was scorn in it. My enemies have thought the same thing about many things I have taken part in,’’ he said, quietly. “But this is different,’’ Rattleton de_ clared. ‘‘I tell you this 1 is a plot, and I believe Phil Hardy. is init. He knew they would put you incaptain, and that is why he got out. There’s no more trouble with. his heart than there is with mine.’’ _ “He has the doctor’s certified state- ment, iS ee Thats pee Bet he had to pay. for BES 8 / & think how it would pull you ad knowtt Hardy but a short time, but elieve the Se on ine jevel; Phil Still Frank aes to believe Hiae. He had played fast ball on the team the sea- son. before, although he-had not been friendly with Merriwell, who was one of the regular pitchers. He had been chosen to captain the nine, as well as manage it, and, with few exceptions, the clioice was considered a good one. It did not seem possible now that because Yale turned out as strong a teain as Hardv had weakened and trick to get out of his position of respon- sibility. ‘*You must remember, Rattles,’’ said Frank, ‘‘that he had a bad spell in the game last Saturday.”’ ‘Made it.’ ‘Then he is a corking actor,’’ ‘*He didn’t fool me.”’ ‘ Still Frank refused to be convinced. ‘‘There.is little danger that Ill be put in captain of the nine,’’ he said. ‘There is every danger of it, You are the very man who will be offered the place.’’ had not usual resorted to a ‘‘But the committee willnot accept my - terms.’ ‘“Your terms ?’’ ‘“That’s what I said.” ‘Why, you——”’ “TI shall have a proposal to make to them.”? Harry did not have such scruples about questioning Frank as troubled Hodge. His curiosity was aroused. , ‘(What sort of a proposal will you. make?’ he asked, Frank did not answer the question, for, at that moment, another man entered the park, saw Merriwell, and approac hed oe swiftly. “Hardy !?? exclaimed Frank, ‘Hardy!’ cried Rattleton, softly. ‘‘He’s up to something now. Look out for him, Merry! Don’t be trapped.”’ Se ae eicte —- play the friend wilh Rois ae CHAPTER V. ERRIWELL, CAPTAIN M Phil Hardy was an honest-looking fel- low, and it was not remarkable that Mer- tiwell did not believe him the crafty ‘chap Rattieton represented him to be. He came forward swiftly. am looking ‘*You are the very man I for, Mr. Metriwell,’’ he said. ‘*Well, you have Frank. ”» smiled found me, ‘“T thought I might find you here when I found you were not in the of the directors of the ball team.” Rattleton gave Frank | Hardy took and led him away, your room or on campus. You are wanted at a aneeting a warning look. Merriwell’s arm whiie Hodge and Rat- hold of tleton followed. ‘*Tt’s a shame to drag Merry into this!”’ spluttered Harry. ‘“Into what?” ‘Why, him to be asked, Bart, don’t you know? They’re after captain of the ‘varsity nine in Hardy’s place.’’ oryyy innocently. 1at’s good.’’ **Good!’’ ctied Harry. ‘‘It’s,a conspir- acy—a plot—an outrage! That’s what it iP) “Oh, come off! at, anyway? Are you nutty ?’’ ‘‘Not a bit of it, Hodge. I tell you it is a plot to hurt Frank! He’s a fool if he lets them pull him into it after what I have told him! But, for all of his shrewd- What are you driving ness about most things, he is easy some times. He wants to think everybody white. He is the kind of fellow who wil] let a chap walk all over«him and then to that sort of a cur. That’s where he makes his mistake.’ Now Hodge was aroused, for Rattleton had touched him on a tender spot. “You. are wrong!’ cried Batt, flushing. FRANK MERRIWELL’S DOUBLE _weapons I was using. SHOOT. CORT A es valks all over Frank Merriwell No man walks ali over Frank Merriwell. the ad\ antag worst € . but Me You never knew a fellow to get best of Merriwell and hold his Frank js on that a fighter, ) and’ his 1 anemi agree point fights fair. He will not take an- unfair advantage of his meanest and most sneaking enemies, and, for that very reason, the worst en- emies he has respect him.”’ Rot }? ‘’There is no rot about it. I know, for did every- Hittdys kek sort of expe how mean and sneaking. ean things, but still I best of Frank } thought I had my I was his enemy once, and I thing in my power to injure did not hesitate to resort to any dient, no matter I did sothe very m could not get the lerti- well. Sometimes I “hia but I always found out mistake. When I got him It made me furious, down I was unable to hold him. for I have a temper of my own and a little pride. I was fierce enough to kill him.”? ‘Well, what does that prove?’’ impa- tiently asked Harry. “Wait. Iam not through. What I want to tell you is this: The more] tried to hurt Merriwell in a sneaking manner the lower I sunk in for] found that he knew what I had done, and yet he refused to get' back at me in the same way, although he had op-. my own estimation, portunities enough. He would not lower — himself to fight with me the same kind of At first I thought him afraid of me——”’ ‘““’"That’s it! that’s it!’’ cried Rattleton. ‘“’'That’s think of him when he goes easy with them.’’ “But I learned better than that after a > Hodge went on. ‘‘I found out he was not afraid at all. It was not coward- ice, but it was courage. He was willing to fight me fairly while I took any mean _ advantage of him, and still he was not’ afraid I would get the best of him in the > just what they time, end. He felt himself my match, and I be gan to feel that he was a better man than Tin every way. That was what hurt me most. I did not like to think that the fel- low I hated was more honorable than I; I did not like to think he would scorn to strike me afoul blow, knowing all the while that I had struck him many such blows. I was forced to confess to inyself that he was a squarer man than I, and that hurt me more than anything he could have done to me. It is the same with his enemies now. They know he is white, and they feel that they are sneaks. That galls them. ‘“‘Let Frank Merriwell alone, Rartieti. He has a level head, and he can take care of himself.’’ *‘Oh, you don’t understand the situa- tion now!’’ cried Harry, showing impa- tience. ‘That is plain enough. Frank is ‘so square he would not dream anybody could pull him into the trap that is set for him. Now look here, Hodge,,I want you to understand that Iam just as much Merry’s friend as you are, and Idon’t like to see him trapped. I have warned him, but I'l] bet he’ll let them fool him just the same.’”’ ‘It?s seldom he is fooled, old man. It may seem for a time that he is fooled, but, in the end, it turns out the other party is the one fooled.”’ . ‘Tt can’t turn out that way this time. I have been in college longer than you, Hodge, and I know something about what I am driving at. The ’varsity nine is in a bad way this season. Tt is weaker than it has been be- fore in six years, while Princeton and Harvard are stronger. Yale’s stanchest supporters say she has no show of win- ning the pennant. Now, right here is where the trick comes in. Phil Hardy is captain and manager. He knows he will is bound to make, and he gets out in a hurry——” é By his doctor's orders,” FRANK MERRIWELL’S DOUBLE oe blamed more or less for the fizzle Yale SHOOT. me that way! Doctor’s fush! I talk what I’m knowing about—I mean I know what I’m talking about. It was a trick. Hardy wanted to get out, and he took that way. Now Merriwell is to be pulled in to fill the place, so all the blame may be piled on. his shoulders. I’ve toid him the whole business, and he will go in with his eyes open.’ “If you have told him, about him,’’ said Bart, quietly. won’t be caught.”’ ‘“That’s heard him say team wanted to see him.’’ ‘That's all right. ‘They will not trap Frank Merriwell. Don’t let that worry you.”? But Bart could not impart this feeling of confidence to Harry. They got onto the same car with Hardy and Merriwell, and Rattleton was uneasy and nervous all the way back to the college. Harty wanted to get another word with Frank before the latter went before the directors, but Hodge held him back. ‘*T tell you to let. him alone,’’ said Bart, sharply. ‘‘I should resent it if you kept after me in such a manner.’? “Vou needn’t worry!’ snapped Harry. ‘‘T wouldn’t keep after you at all. IfI took the trouble to warn you once, I’d let you go after that.”’ “Surely Frank Merriwell. is as shrewd don’t worry “She as I am.”? The afternoon exercises were over. On the campus were gathered knots-of stu- dents, all of whom seemed to be eagerly discussing something of general import- _ ance. = ‘“They know what is up,’’ said Harty: ‘“They are talking baseball.’’ He was right. Almost the sole topic of conversation on the Yale campus that Ate. eae The: outlook for Yale was so dark thatthe most hopeful felt the shadow of gloom. _ Right on top of the loss of Captain ernoon was the baseball situation. what Hardy isafter him for. I. the directors of the ball St ie ge sab Se RES S a me me KiB. cai S _ ’now,’’ drawled Paulding. Hardy, Bink Stubbs had _ been ditioned, so that he must give up playing or take the chance of being class. that Yale’s nine The appearance of Merriwell in com- pany with Phil Hardy caused a stir. ‘“There goes the lamb to the slaugh- ter,’’ langhed Walter Gordan, who was midst of a little gathering of Merry’s old-time foes, con- dropped a The general feeling seemed to be was all to pieces. in the **Wouldn’t it be moah propah to say the cawfe?’’ drawled Willis Paulding, with a weak attempt at wit. ‘‘Oh, he made himself a big gun by his work on the football team last fall,’’ said Pooler, with a grin of satisfaction; ‘‘but he’ll lose it ali if he takes Hardy’s place on the nine.’’ **He can’t Walt Forrest. ‘*Hey?’’ cried the others. you mean by that? hii for.’ get Hardy’s place,’’ said ‘““What do It's what they want ‘‘I guess not,’’ grinned Forrest. ‘fReally?’? questioned Sidney Gooch, in his smooth, insinuating way. ‘‘Why, that is what I heard.”’ ‘“They may want him to be captain of the nine,’’? said Forrest; ‘‘but he can’t have Hardy’s place. He will be substitute captain, and that is all. Hardy was manager. that the directors intend to keep Hardy in manager just the same, so Merriwell will be under him.”’ “And I know for a fact,’’ said Pooler, **that Phil Hardy has no intention of tre- maining manager. He knows better than that. Don’t take that boy for a fool.” ‘You think—just what?”? ‘“He wants to get out ofit entirely.’ ‘‘Because he thinks Yale show ?”’ “{Suse./? . : ‘Aw! I think that is wight, don’t yer “Some verwy has no FRANK MERRIWELL’S DOUBLE SHOOT, Besides that, | I know for a fact 13 fine fellows in Hawvard. I weally think they awe going-to win this yeah.”’ No. one paid any attention to Willis, for his opinion was not regarded as important. Sat BaEay gets out, Merriwell will be said Walter Gordan, although he was trying manager who was green ith envy, to hide it. ‘*Not on your life!’ laughed Forrest. “YT hie the team themselves, and I pity the poor He’ll get it in the directors will attempt to manage devil of a captain. neck on all sides.”’ This caused a general laugh, for these fellows rejoiced to think of the trouble Frank Merriwell would get into. ‘*Weally,’’ said Willis, ing to call some attention to himself, ‘‘I again atteimpt- ain wuther glad Hawvard has a show this yeah. Ido not think it propah faw Yale to win all the time, deah boys.”’ ‘*Oh, rats!’’ cried Gordan. ‘‘Harvard hasn’t a show. It will be Princeton this year.”’ The others nodded. ‘*Rinch will make monkeys of our poor fellows,’’ said Pooler, with an attempt at dolefulness. ‘‘What’s the matter with you??? ex- claimed Forrest. ‘‘You want to see Yale defeated ?”’ ‘Oh, really I protest!’’ cried Pooler. ‘Still, as long as Merriwell has any- thing todo with the Yale team, it will give you satisfaction to see Yale defeated. You can’t deny that,’’ said Forrest. ‘‘Oh, I’d rather see Yale win, for all of Merriwell, but I do not have so much sympathy with her when she loses if he plays.’? ‘Say!’ cried Forrest. ‘‘I want you to — think of one little thing. Vale seldom loses at anything when Frank Merriwell — isin the game. He seems to be Old Eli’s’ mascot: A Eo “OF ¢ cawse, it’s all beastly. luck,’ ae in Paulding. “He doesn’t really, hava. ‘ 14 : ; FRANK MERRI>, uuL’S DOUBLE SHOOT. any more to do with it than any other good man would.”? ‘You may think as you like about that,’’ said Forrest, evasively; ‘‘but you must confess that he seems to bring Yale good luck. duck at football last fall, life and snap into the team, and Yale but he put new came out ou top.’’ ‘*He can’t do that with the ball teain,’’ said Gordan. ‘‘’There’s where he’ll meet his Waterloo.’ ‘‘Let’s see, Gordan,’’ said Forrest, ‘‘I believe you and Merriwell were rivals for pitching honors the first year in college. He got onto the ’varsity nine, and you got left. Ha, ha! You,haven’t admired him since.’? Gordan flushed. SOR ait wasn’t. that,?’ “but he thinks he is so much. what makes me sick.”’ ‘‘We all-have our reasons for not lov- ing him,’’ said Pooler. talk about that. The worst thing I wish him now is that they make him captain of the ball team.”’ Rattleton and Hodge drifted from knot to knot of the students on the campus, finding all were talking baseball. The events of the last few hours had stirred up the ‘‘sports”’ wonderfully. Rattleton was excited and nervous. He was waiting for the reappearance of Frank Merriwell. On the other hand, Hodge seemed un- unconcerned.’ Bart he declared; That’s ‘*Tt’s no use to usually cool and smiled whenever he heard fears expressed as to the result of the struggle for the pennant, and he smiled more when some - one declared Yale did not have a show. It was generally known that the direc- 4 tors meant to appoint Merriwell captain of the nine, but there were not a ‘few who declared Sean: was too wise to accept the . osition at that late hour and Pat such un avorable circumstances. We thought she was a dead, swiftly. Lamps were sending gleams of light from the windows of the quad. It was a inild spring night, and voices could be heard calling from the open windows. Over in South Middle a banjo was plunk- plunking. There were bursts of laughter now and then. Some fellow was whistling ‘*Magegie Murphy’s: Home.”’ Still the ‘‘sports”’ pus, waiting for Hardy and Merriwell to appear. Rattleton was so nervous he could not hold himself still three seconds at a time. Hodge was -not disturbed in the least. ‘*Here they coime!’’ Somebody uttered the cry. The former captain of the nine was seen approaching, with Frank Merriwell at his side. He was seen to grasp Frank by the arm and draw largest collection of students near the fence. Other students made a rush for that spot... ‘‘Gentlemen,’’ said Phil Hardy, speaking clearly and distinctly, ‘‘I wish to introduce to you my successor, Mr. Merriwell, who* is now captain and man- agea of the ’varsity nine.”’ him toward the CHAPTER YI. FRANK’S. TERMS. ‘‘Three cheers for Captain Merriwell!’’ “Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!’ ‘Three more for Manager Merriwell!”’ “Aurrah! hurrah! hurrah!” The pent-up feelings of the crowd burst forth in a wild roar of satisfaction. | ‘*Now,’’? rang out the clear voice, of Charlie Creighton, as he scrambled up on the shoulders of two strong fellows and waved his cap in the air, ‘‘now give three cheers for plain “Frank Merriwell, the whitest man, the truest sport, and the. best all-round athlete in Tales Wake’em ~~ up!’ i They did. The feeling of enthusiasm thatSeized upon them just then wasin- _ these, and ee cheered and cheered ee ‘: lingered on the cam-- =— J enlies he/ ss — SO ee eB ns FRANK MERR!WELI The windows of the quad filled. The news spread, and the ~cheering became general. Harry Rattleton was numb with dis- may. ‘‘Manager and captain!’’ he gasped. “Gracious! Bart Hodge was palpitating with satis- faction. ‘*Mana ge rx and he cried. “Aurrah !’ On the outskirts of the crowd that had gathered so swiftly about the new captain was Walter Gordan, with envy. “*Oh, it’s just his infernal luck !’’? Wal- ter whimpered, ‘‘Hear the fools cheer for him! It’s all they know!”? ‘‘Let them cheer now,’’ Pink Pooler “The cheering captain !”” eating his heart out muttered in Gordan’s ear. will turn to groans after a few ball games have been played.”’ - said Forrest, who had caught Pink’s words. ‘‘He has been shtewd enough to get himself appointed **T don’t know,”’ manager, as.well as captain. There is no telling what he nay do with the team.”’ “It's too late for him to make it a win- ner,’’ said Pooler, with satisfaction. ‘‘It takes time [to build up a winning nine. ‘‘Frank’s: friends crowded about him, shaking his hand and congratulating him, some of his with a few. exceptions. friends were not enthusiastic over his ap- pointment. Harry Rattleton-was one of them. A few others thought the same as Harry about it. sut these were but few of the crowd that swarmed about Merry. Of course sone of those who shook his hand and ex- pressed their delight were hypocritical, but the most of them were sincere. Frank was modest. He smiled ava said: : ‘Thank you, fellows. You are more than kind. has such friends.” Harry Rattleton groaned, It does one good to know he. 18 DOUBLE SHOOT. 15 ‘It seems to nie Merry is getting to be a soft thing They have 19) he muttered. made a mark of him this time, and he walked into the trap with his eyes open.”’ Harry was disgusted. -He had warned Frank, but Frank had not heeded the warning. From what he had overheard Rattleton was sure it was a trap to injure Frank, For a little while Harry was so dis- gusted -that he went off by himself and declared he was glad of it and that he hoped they would soak it to Frank. Then he was ashamed of himself for wishing ill luck to such a friend, and he felt like punching somebody’s head. It was about this time that Andy Emery, on the way to his room, saw Rattleton staiding all alone ina dejected attitude beneath one of the big elms. ‘“Hey, there, Rattles!’’ called Emery, coming close enough to recognize Harry in the twilight. ‘‘What are you sulking here for? Why aren’t you making merry along with Merriwell’s other friends?” Harry looked at Andy and scowled. The scowl] was wasted in the gloom, for Emery did not see it. ‘‘What’s the matter with you?’ asked Hmery, coming closer. ‘‘You should be happy to know Merriwell is captain, even if Yale does not stand a show of win- ning.”? | ‘Now, you want to be careful!’ growled Harry fiercely. ‘‘I’m in no mood for your jokes! ll bet you something Yale does win! They can’t beat Frank Merriwel “(Come off!’? laughed Emery. ‘‘He’s made a chump of himself this time, and everybody knows it.”’ , ‘“'That’s a lie!’’ snarled Rattleton. ‘*And I won’t stand to have anybody call Frank Merriwell a chump before me!” - Then he let fly his tight hand, struck Emery on the chin wis his fist, z and knocked the fellow down. | ‘The moment Rattleton did aus Ae was S } 1»? LOS? FRANK MERRIWELL’S DOUBLE SHOOT, sorry. It seemed he did it without think- ing. Emery was dazed and astounded. He had always tegarded Rattleton as a peaceable sort of fellow, but now—— ‘What in blazes do you mean?’’ he gasped, lifting himself upon his elobw. In a moment Harry was kneeling be- side the fellow he had struck. ‘Forgive ime, Emory, old man!’’ he his voice quivering with shame and regret. ‘‘I didn’t know I was going to do it—honest I didn’t! I did it before ‘I thought! I’m half crazy, anyway! You know I wouldn’t do such a thing pur- posely! Let me help you up!”’ ‘‘Get out!’ said Emery, sharply. ‘‘I can get up myself. You are not to be trusted! It must be you have been drink: ing!’ cried, “Not a drop. But I think I am dind of kaffy—I mean kind of daffy! If I hadn’t been—— Say, old man, hit me! I’ll take it all right. Soak me a good one! Knock me down!’? Emery was on his feet, and Harry was begging to be. struck in turn. . Andy looked at. him in amazement, and then turned away, gently rubbing the spot where Rattleton’s knuckles had struck. ‘“VYou are daffy!’’ Emery flung over his shoulder. ‘‘You ought to be in an asylum.,”? Harry stood still and stared after Emery till he was gone. Then an almost irresistible desire to shed tears assailed the excited fellow, who was completely unstrung. He hurried to his room and locked himself in, feeling that he never wauted to see anybody again. Deep down in his heart Harry Rattleton was one cf the truest of Frank Merri- —well’s friends. His affection for Frank -. was of the most intense nature, and, be- _ ing somewhat excitable, he had become 1\ terical « over the BAreAOr One: he believed ae from walking anything to keep Frank into the trap. record at Yale, and he felt sure this meant the ruin of the proud reputation Merry had won. He was proud of Frank’s Harry got hungry after a time. He be- gan to realize it, and he became aware of the fact that he had not eaten dinner. Then he decided to go out to a restaurant somewhere and have something all alone by himself. He would be alone in his misery. He was slinking along the streets like a whipped dog when somebody blocked his path, and a voice cried: ‘*Here he is, fellows! We won’t have to go to his room for him. It’s a streak of luck.” Harry’s heart gave a thump as he recognized Merriwell’s voice. He looked up and saw three fellows before him. They were Merry, Hodge and Browning. ‘‘Come,’’ said Frank, Jocking arms with Harry. ‘{We had started out to have 1 little feed when I thought of you, and we ttirned not eaten,’’ At first Harry thought thought he would say he had just eaten, so he might get away. But when he tried to say so, the words stuck in his throat. So Merry had thought of him, and they were coming to hunt him up and take him out. blurr before his eves. back to get you, if you have ‘“You are very good,’’ he said, weakly, “but——’? “There is no but about it,’’ said Frank, in his hearty, whole-souled man- _ ner. ‘‘If you have not eaten, you must come along and, have a square feed, if you have eaten, you must come along just the same and watch us fill our sacks. Line up, fellows, and close in on him.”? Hodge took Rattleton’s arm, and Browning fell in behind, aay observ- He choked, and there was a_ a Live ee as Pe 5 xt & ‘‘He’s in for it now. Hscape is impos- sible. ’’ So they bore him away to a first-class restaurant, where they had a little private dining-room all to themselves, and Merri- well ordered elaborate spread, and they pitched into the food and ate like the hearty, hungry fellows they were. As Frank was jollier than ever before. an warmed. tHe laughed and joked, he told stories that he ate, Harry’s heart caused the others to shout with laughter. He was the prince of good fellows, that was sure. Still Harry could not help thinking whata shame it was that he had been trapped. Hodge was unusually talkative, though his talk 3rowning managed to crack a joke.now and then, and he was able to eat and laugh al- was of a serious nature. as heartily as anybody. Not a word did any of them say Merriwell’s new position of responsibility till the meal was over and their appetites about satisfied. Then produced and offered them to the others, laughing as he did so. 3rowning cigarettes No one accepted a.cigarette. “T don’t suppose anybody will object if I smoke,’’ said Bruce, as he selected one... “Ves,’? said Frank, quietly, ‘‘I shall object, old man.”’ With no little surprise, Browning saw Merriwell was in sober earnest. “Great Scott!’ he exclaimed. ‘*Why should you object ?”’ ‘‘} have a very good reason. I imay ”) ‘What want you before the season is over _ “Want me???’ cried Browning. for?’?: ‘*First base.’’ “Come off!’ ‘*T am in earnest.”’ “Why, I ain too fat, Frank—lI am not in condition. Such a thing is ridiculous!”’ You are large, but you might be fatter ea f . > _ than you are. I know you can train down FRANK MERRIWELL’S DOUBLE KA Pa FAs LEP er ST eng NE ? a Ro pe Veen ee SHOOT, 17 swiftly. you down at an astonishing rate.’? A week of hard work will pull Bruce groaned. “Tt might; but I should not through it,’? he said, as he struck the match and prepared to light the cigarette. out the match and took the cigarette from Browning’s fingers. live Frank blew ‘‘fam talking business to you now,”’ he said, almost sternly. ‘*‘You are going to work systematically to-morrow to work off your flesh, for I may want you on the When you are in condi- tion you are a better man than Parker on first, while Parker is a better man than Faunce in the field. One trouble with the nine is that several of the men are not playing in their proper positions.’ varsity nine. ‘But you are not going’to have the nerve to switch them around! You wil] not have the crust to fire some of them and take on new men!”’ “Won't 1? Wait and see. You know I am manager, as well as captain. I con- sidered everything before I told the direc- tots what I would do. They wanted mie to be captain, while they rétained the management ofthe nine. I said ‘Nit! I told them that, if 1 became captain, J must be manager also, and that I must have absolute and thorough control of the team. I must have the authority todo just as I pleased, with nobody to forbid me,’’ ‘‘Good for you!’ cried Hodge, while Rattleton brightened up and. showed great interest. ‘Tt staggered them at first,’’ smiled Frank. ‘They thought I had. a crust. They tried to induce me to agree to their terms, but I would not. Then they had a fight among themselves, for some were against giving me so much rope. I waited quietly till the smoke of battle cleared — away, and then I found they were ready to accept my terms, So I am manager, as well as captain, and I am goi 1g to fun fae Poe 5 Zé 18 things just as I please. If I make a fizzle of it, no one else will be to blame.’ the stuff!’ Hodge. Harry shook ‘hat’s exclaimed the enthusiastic his head, but said noth- Ing. Frank saw the movement, sr] and quickly aske ‘*What’s the , Rattles? come! Yot are off your trolley. thing is all right.’ ‘‘!’m afraid everything is all wrong,’’ Rattleton, Put} you, and you went into it with your eyes Come, Every- nratter said gravely; warned open.”’ ‘‘Ves, but I went in on my own terms. VJ] make an overturning in the nine,”’ **It’s too late for that.’’ ‘I don’t'think so.”’ ‘Besides, the material is not here to cing nine. You can’t makea teain out of second-class make a cork first-class ball material.’’ ‘‘T believe the said Merry, quietly; ‘‘but I do not think it is all on the nine. I got Hodge oe and now Iam going to have Browning.’ “Oh, come, Merry!”’ “T]] do almost anything for you, can’t torture myself to work Besides I could not get enough material is here,’’ gasped Bruce. but I off flesh in a hurry. off to—— “Vou can get off enough so you will be able to play ball all right. I want you for batting. © Batters count. You are a good hitter, and the team is weak at the bat. Bruce; I want you, and am going to have you. You must quit drinking beer and -sinoking cigarettes, You must go into training to-inorrow, aud you must work hard to get off superfluous flesh. One week from Saturday you go on the nine.”’ It was useless for Browning to beg; Merty had decided, and the big fellow could not get out of it. | “ wouldn’ tdo it for any other man living,’ d declared the le azy student ; but ?? your It’s no use, FRANK MERRIWELL’S DOUBLE in ten days . SHOOT. You area What you I suppose I'll have to for you. perfect tyrant, anyway. say goes. ”’ *fAnd what he is tight,’’ clared the confident Hodge. “Then 1 -will here,’’? spoke” Frank, with quiet assurance, ‘‘that Yale says de- say tight _ will have a nine that will be the surprise of th after that pennant, and Princeton and Harvard will e season. Weare going have to hustle to win.”’ He was thinking of Merriwell’s marvelous double-shoot. ‘They can’t touch it,’? he muttered. ‘*Kh >?” said Browning. ‘‘What’s that? Hodge nodded. Touch what?’’ ‘*Vou’ll see,’’? said Hodge, his eyes gleaming. ‘‘Frank says the Yale team will be a surprise, but I know what will be a still greater surprise.”’ CHAPTER PRINCETON’S Rei STARTER. The opening gaine of the college league was on. Yale and Princeton were drawn up for the first struggle on the grounds of the latter nine. Yale was in the field, ‘Stew’? Walbert in the box. The preliminary practice was all over, and the umpiré was opening a box to extract a brand new Spaulding. Haggerty and Merriwell were on the bench in uniform. Browning was on the bench in citizen’s, clothes. Merriwell showed no signs of nervousness. Brown- ing was placid as aspring morning. Hag- gerty fidgeted. es Yale represented. by. ‘‘rooters’’ from New Haven. ‘There was one Jonesome little knot huddled on the bleachers, trying to look happy and con- fident, but making a sad failure of it. Yale men had stayed away. ‘They felt that their team had no show at all, and. they with was not well did not haye the heart to go See = < to Princeton and root against a sure , more nervous. one he thought. Merriwell is the mov- whole team. With him Harvard would have a red can’t lose a time!” “Tt will rnin me ing spirit of the out of the way, walk-over.’’ With him out of the way! Pink’s That thought kept running in head. How could Merriwell be disposed of so he could take no part inthe game against Harvard? pee fell to scheming. He formed ter plan but discarded them all. of trying to drug Frank on plan af He uae: the field but that had been tried too many, times. It was dangerous and, it might not prove successiul. ‘*No,’’ he decided, ‘‘I will see that he is cooked in advance.”’ He went into town and was seen talk- ing with some lads who seemed rather disreputable in appearance. | Friday came. Among the first to reach the park for practice was Merriwell and Hodge. Frank was going to pitch to Bart a while before all the team sembled on the field. as- It happened that Bart and. Costigan were the first to get out of the dressing rr reom, and Frank was left pufting on his shoes. He finished this task and rose to his feet. As he did so, the door opened and a rough-looking chap dodged in. ““Hello!’’ aotnaied Frank, in prise. “Who are you? and what are you doing here?”’ The fellow caught up a bat and swung it aloft. “Shut up!’ he hissed. I’]] split your head open!” Then he gave a sharp whistle. Frank knew that whistle was a signal, Ssur- “TE you holler, and he instantly realized crooked work was afoot. With his eyes he measured* An instant he madea cat-like spring, caught the distance to the intruder. FRANK MERRIWELL’ S DOUBLE SHOOT. hold of the bat, twisted it 1 jow’s hand, and had him CENT : Fiabe eee a ene 1a - You tmternal sneak he eried ‘“What is vour came?» I am onto you! ‘Tt ay x ote ~ 1 z ] “ [he door came open with a bang. Cte cot ee 9 Sete - Come on, fellers!’’ cried the first fel- an ‘ 6 ee ce - ] t.. ! low to enter. We’s got him al lone 4 Be et “ We kin fix him! Five or six young ruffians started ‘to bende . te te . ] a “114 Aare Aa eaaae ie cele swarit in atthe door. They had heavy sticks, and it was plain they meant to do Merriwell harm. The one Frank had by the collar to give him a swinging blow, tried 134 vest i> but, quick as a flash, Merriwell caught him up and flung him straight at the gang in the doorw: ay ! The human catapult struck the fore- most of the ruffans arid nearly swept them off their feet. Before they could recover, Merry caught up the bat and charged them. Mercilessly he belabored them over the shoulders. Once or twice he cracked one on the head. They howled with terror and diseust, and Frank soon drove them from the dressing-room., He slammed the door, barred it and held them out successfully till some of the other players arrived on the field and came to his rescue. The gang, seeing they had been baffled in their attempt, lost little time in get- ting away ee give soinething to know who put them up to the job,’’ said Frank. ‘‘I am sure the were hired todo me up, Hf I had not tumbled and acted in a hurry, they: would have done it all right.” Hodge was indignant. ‘' Pll wager I.can tel who put them up to the game,’’ he said. ‘*Naine him.’ ‘Pink ‘*What makes you think so ??’ i ‘*Pooler hates you: He bet me fifty something Pooler.’’ dollars Yale would lose the game with Princeton. I beat him at that, and I know that was uot all the money he had on the game. He has put up everything he could rake that Yale will not win the pennant. If Yale wins, Pooler is ruined. If he didn’t hire that gang to do you aes ‘I don’t know.’’ but I did stand in “*T hate to think it of him, member now that he Te- with : ~ 28 FRANK MERRIWELL’S DOUBLE SHOOT. some of iy enemies who have been driven to leave college. I'll keep my eyes open for him in the future.”’ ‘‘VYou won’t make a mistake if you do.” The story of the attempt to knock out Metriwell caused no small excitement, for Frank had hundreds of friends, and all Yale seemed to look to him as the Moses who might lead them out of the wilderness. The time of the game with Harvard rolled about at last, and the boys from Cambridge came down in force. Rooters with powerful lungs and tin horns galore were on hand. Yale wag at home, and she was stuffed full of courage, for all of the queer team Frank had got together. Yale started off like winners, making two scores in the first, But, not to be outdone, Harvard managed to get in two on two scratch hits and as inany errors. Then both pitchers settled down, and not another score was made for six in- nings. In the seventh Harvard scored. In the eighth Yale tied her. In the ninth Yale got another and took the lead. Then was the time for Frank Merri- well to show the timber he was made of, and he did so. ‘Then it was that his double-shoot came into use and won the game by fooling three of Harvard’s best batters so they all struck out. Yale had won the first two games of the series with Princeton and Harvard, and was fairly on the road to the pen- laut. Pink Pooler felt like murdering Frank Merriwell. fication that night, but kept at a dis- CAA IINERZ SESS LSS ‘i i SA NY i / MS, He-took no part in the jolli-- tance, listening with burning heart to the songs and cheers of the hilarious stu- dents. That night he realized that he was a traitor in every sense of the word, and he | was more bitter at heart than ever before. ‘‘Frank Merri‘vell is responsible for it all,’ he kept declaring. ‘*‘He has the greatest iuck!. Sometime he will have the luck to get it in the neck. Those fel- lows made a failure of the attempt to knock him out before the gaine, but they. got away with my money, for they would not attempt the job unless I paid in ad- vance. That has showed me there are chaps in New Haven who may be hired to do almost anything. Some night. Frank Merriwell will run against some- thing that will end his career as an ath- lete..”’ * Although Frank knew he had enemies in Yale, he was not aware there was one quite so desperate and dangerous as Pink Pooler. pes And, despite all his enemies, with the aid of his double-shoot, he succeeded in piloting the Yale team to victory that season. The feat stands on record as most remarkable, for it was generally acknowl- edged that never had Yale put a poorer team in'the field at the opening of the season. 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It might pay you to correspond with a coin collector in London, England, In Great Britain, from the year 400 to 600 A. D., a series of small coin like pennies were made, called stycae, mixed metal, These were succeeded about the year 600 by silver pennies, and continuing until. the Norman conquest by William the Conqueror in’ 1066. From this time the coinage of silver pennies con- ~ tinued until the reign of Edward III., in/1327, when the coinage of gold and the larger silver pieces cam- menced, * a which was more than usu: lly TIP Unwary Students. Traps for Many of the recognized methods of ohesting at ex- atuinations have fallen into disuse, and the scholar vho tries autiquated systems of cheating generally wheh render the ble, and comes to grief, Precautions are now taken the old fashioned examina room trick of car answers into ‘y ing ion on euffs and rulers impr the thousand and one devices for illictly securing marks have been so thoroughly exposed that no examiner Worth his salt will allow himself to be bamboozled. The student is thus compelled to be honorable, and in consequence the vast majority of examinations result in the victory of those who most deserve to succeed. Not content, room of its innumerable flagrant however, with purging the examination- abuses, some mem- scholastic are cheat actually To tarted minds if seems to be a fine thing indeed in such a bers of the te th oa mean enough to tempt the students to their dis- to **ac- cidentally’ place a map or primer position that a puzzled examinee, thinking he sees a smooth road to success, may stealthily draw it toward him and take surreptitious peeps at it when the eyes of It is then easy for the examiner to swing rcund suddenly, red-handed, and hold him up before those in authority are turned in another direction. catch the offender the remainder of the students as an example of base- ness and dishonor. In this way a lad who was a candidate for a_ big scholarship was very neatly trapped some time.ago He noticed that a small map of Africa was hanging on but, its importance until the geography Then he found that most of the questions were on the subjeet of Africa, and they proved such brain-rackers that h3 was. sorely tempted to look furtively at the map for assistance. the wall by his side beyond casually glaneing at did not consider papers were’ given out. For a long time he battled manfully with his diffi- culties, but his eyes were drawn to the wall as though by a magnet, and ultimately he copied afew details from the map.. Thoroughly ashamed of himself, he soo) moved away, but another student had seen his action, and immediately complained to the examiner, The aniner afterward declared that he had placed the map student who who cancelled the unfortunate boy’s papers. ex~ on the wall as a temptation to the hap- peued to sit next it, and really seemed to think that he had done something very praiseworthy. 3 i ‘ Ata big school the master strongly suspected a boy ot shady practices, but in fhe absence of direct proof he determined to test the lad’s honesty during the progress of the midsummer examination. He there- fore went early to the class-room, turé a sheet contain- ing a very difficult proposition out of a geometry book, and dropped it on the floor, just under the desk at which he knew the suspected boy would sit. Then he retired to his place and awaited developments In.a little time the lads trooped in, all looking nerv- ous, and devoted their energies to the geonie try. paper, difficult. The suspected lad perused the questions, answered a few s the easi- est, and then, casting his eyes to the floor, caught sight of the sheet. Goodness! the very hardest proposition which-had been set in the paper was staring him in the face! He looked up quickly to see whether he was ob- served, but the master was gazing out of the window at the blue sky, apparently oblivious of what was go- ing on under his nose. The youngster stooped, captured the fatal sheet, and in less than ten minutes had copied out the proposition. He thought he had experienced a great stroke of luck, but when he was interviewed’ by the master a few mornings later, and asked to work out the proposition he realized his mistake, and wished Eventually he just managed ou the blackboard, he bad never been born. TOP WEEKLY. to escape expulsion by the skin of his teeth, and it is little to be wondered at that there is now no love lost between the dishonest student and the master who 'so artfully tempted. him. A case in which the examiner’s meanness obvious to the whole of the candidates occurred recently. A shorthand key had been placed licious intent on a desk in a dark corner of the examiner believing that its presence certainly tempt the student who discoy advantage of his good (or ill) fortune. nately for him, a very sharp boy happened | to be the first, to grab the key, and he knew the examiner so well that he instantly saw through the cunning trick. was made quite witb ma- the room, here would vered it to take But, unfortu- ‘The old cad’s done this’ on purpose,’’ he said to himself, ‘‘for it’s his own book. Ill show him that he’s made a mistake.’’ . e Then, rising noisily to his feet, he held up the key and addressed the examiner im a shrill treble: ‘*Please, sir, excuse me, but I believe this is your book ! Shall I bring it up??? ‘he baffled examiner nearly choked with rage and chagrin, but the cat was out of the bag, and the boys, being x used to his tricks, hailed bis downfall with badly concealed glee. ‘Truly the biter was bitten. —— — o— —_ — He Did His Share. It asin India. Dinner was just finished in the mess- room, and several English sitting about the table. Their bronzed faces had the set but not un- kindly look common among military men. The con- versation, at best, been animated, and just now there was a lull, the night was too hot for small talk. The major of the regiment, a clean-cut man of fifty-five, turned toward bis next neighbor at the table, a young subaltern, officers were had not as who was leaning back in his chair with his hands clasped behind his head,-star- ing through the cigar smoke.at the ceiling. The major was slowly looking the man over, from ~ with sudden and in a quiet, steady voice, he said: ‘* Don’t move, Mr. Carruthers. “I want to try an experiment with you. Don’t move a muscle,’’ ‘CALL right, >? yeplied the suhaltern, without even turning his eyes. ‘‘Hadn’t the least idea of moy- ing, I assure you. What’s the game?”’ By this time all the others were listening in a lazily his handsome face down, when alertness , : s please, major, expectant way. f “Do you think,’’ continued the major, and his voice trembled just a little. ‘‘Do you think you can keep absolutely still, for, say, two minutes—to save your life?”’ ‘CAre you joking?’? ‘On the coutrary, movea muscle and you are a dead man. Can you stand the strain?’’ The subaltern barely whispered ‘‘Yes,’’ and. his face paled slightly. ‘*Burke,’’ said “she addressing an officer across the table, ‘‘pour some of that milk into a saucer, and set it on the floor here just at the back of me. Gently, man! Quiet!’’ Nota word was spoken as the officer quietly filed the saucer, walked with it carefully around the table, and set it down where the major had indicated on the floor. : r ‘Like a marble statue sat the young. subaltern in his white linen clothes, while a deadly snake, which had been crawling up the leg of his trousers, slowly raised its head, then turned, descended to the floor and glided. toward the -niilk. Suddenly the silence was broken by the report of the’ major’s revolver, and the snake lay dead on the floor. “Thank you, major,’’ said the subaltern, as the two men shook hands warmly. ‘‘ You have saved my life.” ‘‘You’re welcome, my boy,’’ replied the ~ senior, ‘*But you did your share. ”? ; major, ° e i r t e g By: a € 4 1 1 7 ] oe . ee ry, is ; E Ot Ns ae > ; g i. a / \ thi 3 ; " Ee a a pee . net ) eS - : . ( a ® 4 ne a Ses, y 4-9 ‘an army of invasion. chair, ‘TIP Settled with a Syringe. Years ago, when [I wasa youngster (says a_phys- B——, asylum. As in all such tract- ician) I became an assistant of Dr. the superin- tendent of a ‘big asylums, some of the patient are docile and able, and had the freedom of a high-walled garden; : while others, violent and dangerous in their JelUE madness, were confined to their rooms. Sometimes one of the last-named gentlemen would j get loose—a fact which he usually announced by yon which {the things generally—uj breaking advancing upon him would repair to the spot, and, with a steadfast gaze, would march him off to his room, We had one lunatic by the name of Jones, large and strong as an ostrich. He had broken out of his room two or three times, but he had always gone back im- mediately when any one of us made our appearance, room in the center, witha fhe asylum had a big door at each end; and on a certain occasion one of the doors requiring fixing, a carpenter was engaged upon it, wheu in trundied Mr. Jones, aud quietly possessed himself of a long, sharp chisel. When the carpenter looked round, the madman gave whereupon fue man a grin and poked t the chisel at him, of chips seut tled out and locked the door; then, while the.enemy was battering away at it, he rushed 1ound and locked the door at the other end. Having thus caged Jones, he gave the alarm; and, I case, which I could con- supposing it was an ordinary trok, unlocked the door and ente red boldly, whereupon he wriade a rush at me. I incontinently bolted. The doctor was sent for. He the’ keyhole, and, ‘that the enemy was at the other end of the et soon came, reconnoitred through ascertaining room, he opened the door, and saw at once he could do nothing with the loose maniac Here was apparently a dilemma. A crazy individual, as strong as a bull, perfectly uncontrollable and armed To capture him by force was a difficult would with-a weapon! and dangerous undertaking, and to starve him be a tedious affair. But the doctor did not long Alfred,’’ said he, fill ae largest syringe with hartshorn, and why! : — rushed down and brought back a quart syringe with hbartshorn diluted—for I did not want to kill the hesitate ‘(oo down into the surgery, and bring it formed We tHrew open the door and en- tered in the following array: I, being the shortest of front of me by the back, so that the legs night keep off a rush man, Then the doctor, the carpenter and myself the three, marched first, holding a chair in if our popgun should flash in the pan, Then came the carpenter, with the syringe resting upon my Finally, in the rear, shoulder. like a piece of flying artillery. in the safest place, like all great generals, came Dr, — \ he lunatic sat at the other end of the hall, t on a Slowly, eyeing us keenly and savagely. very slowly, we advanced toward him. The nearer we got the more wicked that chisel looked, and the handle seemed to increase, dintil it was very, very long.’ When we were within a few feet of him he jumped up and sprang toward me. . Whiz! splutter! splash! went the quart of hartshorn into bis countenance, down he went like a log—it would have knocked down a battalion—and while he was eatching his breath we caught him. , eee = oo A pce ROAR ne Reem TOP WEEKL has seen ghosts. They Fight Each Other. Baker, who knew nearly all there is to be known about the beasts he hunted so successfully, says that fora really thorough, determined fighter, who does battle for the love of the thing, the wild boar stands in the very\front rank amorig animals. These. creatures: have long been extinet in Britain, but they are still found in the forests of Central hunted. with horn and hound, In India they are hunted Kurope, where they are and in many parts of Asia. by mounted men armed wih spears. This form of sport is known as ‘‘pig-sticking,’’ and is a favorite one with Englishmen in that part of the little difference between the European and tlie Asiatic wild boar; the former is the heavier and stronger, but the latter is more fierce and active. They are well equipped with weapons. The lower tusks are very longand curve upward, and rub against 2 the shorter ones in the upper jaw. This continual fric- tion keeps the points and cutting edges in good work- ing order. Cases are on record where these tusks, when taken from the jaw, have mgasured ten along the curve, [nu fighting there is little, if any, prelimiiary spar- ring, but with beads down they come. to the charge, moving the snout right and left, and trying to rip up the foe with their tusks, which are. sometimes broken off im the fierce onrush. An Tndian hunter once killed a wild boar, and on skinning the animal, the broken point of the tusk of another bear was found imbedded in the skull, having peutrated into the brain-cavity, and there broken off. When a boar is roused and charges, nothing will stop it but death. Sir Samuel Baker says: ‘‘I should like to see any thing on earth that would stop a ‘} ig’? if it makes up its mind ‘to break back thr¢ ie of ches I ugh a line beaters, even should there be a serried rank of a bun- dred elephants. It will dash back, giving a sharp toss of its long head to the right and left as it goes, and leaving its mark even apon the tough legs of elephants, should they have opposed its passage.’? = Wild boar hunting in, Europe is. not much danger, but the case is different in India, where horses and hunters are often ripped. From - General Shakespear’s description of the death of an Indian boar one may see that ‘‘pig-sticking’’ is not without risk and excitenient. Says he: ‘“There was the boar, with a broken spear in his withers, the shaft standing up a foot and a half from the blade, kuocking over a horseman, and Soe his horse; receiving two bullets—each ten to the pound —the first in his weck and throat, the second ereddiriete his jaw; byt still making good his charge, cutting down his enemy like grass—wounding him, CES over a second man armed, with a spear, d fying the dogs; and then, when in the actof che oy ain, he was stopped by a shot which reached the e | radia; eo died without a groan.’ attended with em opecieeee (Fase me ae Somewhat Qualified. Little Girl—‘‘Did you ever see a ghost?’’ lhittle Boy—‘*No.?? ‘‘Didn’t you ever, really?’’ c No,” ‘» ing in one volume thirteen of the famous Frank Merriwell stories complete and 1n- abridged, aud thirteen illuminated photo- engraved illustrations, THE FRANK MERRIWELL STORIES | detail the pranks, trials and bravery of true-hearted American lad—brave' to the core. 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SPECIAL ARTICLES—Splendidly illustrated, on naval and military subjects, will be found in eac h number, SHORT STORIES. oiinate ited short stories by the best writers are published each week. : bichitbed cover—48 magazine pages—the best stories that can be purchased. Alf for FIVE. CENTS, For : ae ey all amet ee STREET & SMITH, 238 William Street, New York City. TIP TOP WEEKLY Iuminated Cover—Price, Five Cents—Thirty-two Pages, Complete List of Stories By the author of “Frank Merriwell.” MO LAINS Tales of School, Fun, College, Travel anc Adventure. oe All back numbers are constantly on hand, and will be mailed to any address on receipt of © price, Five Cents each, 27—Fronk Merriwell a Monarch; or, The King of Phan- tom Island. ~Frank Merriwell in Gorilla Land; or, The Search for the Missing Link. 29 - Frank Merriwell’s Magic. 30—Frank Merriwell in France; or, The Mystery of the Masked Unknown. 31—Frank Merriwell’s Feat; ov, Fighters. 32—Frank M-rriwell in London; or. The Grip of Doom. 33 —Frank Merriwell’s Venture; or, Driven from Armenia. 34—Frank Merriweil in India; or, Hunting Human Leopards. 35 —Frank Merriwell's Vow; or, After Big Game in Cevlon. 36—Frank Merriwell in Japan; or, The Sign of the Avenger 37—Frank Merriwell’s Death Shot; or, Roughing it in Australia. 38—Frank Merriwell in the South Sea; or, The Cast for Life. 39 —Frank Merriwell Home Again; or, The Mystery of Ethel Driscoll. 40 -Frank Merriweil at Yale; Freshman. 41—Frank Merriwell’s Match; Sophmores. 42 —Frank Merriwell’s Victory; or, The Winning Oar. 43—Frank Merriwell's Finish; or, Blue Against Crinison. 44_Frank Merriwell’s Game; or, Snaring the Sharper. 45 —Frank Merriwell’s Great Run; ‘or, ‘lrouncing the , ligers. 46 —Frank Merriwell’s Even Up; or, Squaring the Score. 47 Frank Merriwell's Qneen; or, Blow for Blow. 48—Frank Merriwell’s Find; or, The Waif of the Train. 49 Frank Meérriwell’s Racer; or, Birds of a Feather. 60—Frink Merri ell’s Nerve: or, Game to the End. 51-Frank Merriwell’s Shadow; or, ‘the Mysterious Stranger. 52 Frank Merriwell’s Dash; or, Yale Against the Field. 58—Frauk Merriwell’s Bicycle Boys; or, 'The Start Across the Continent. 54—Frank Merriwell’s Ride for Life; Train Destroyers. 565 — Frank Merriwell’s Great Capture; or, Bicycle Against Horse. 56—Frank Merriwell to the Rescue; or, Through Fire and Water. 57—Frank Merriwell’s Close Call; or, I'he Tramp’s Token. 58—Frank Merriwell's Unknown Friend; or, Old Friends in New Places. 59 - Frank Merriwell Among the Rustlers; or, The Cattle King’s Daughter. 60—Frank Merriwell’s Desperate Drop; or, Wild Adven- tures in the Rockies. ‘The Queen of the Bull or Freshman Against or, The King of tho or, Foiling the "i 61—Frank Merriwell in the Mines; or, The Blind Sines ot Silver Bluff. 62—Frank Merriwell Among the Mormons; or, The Lost Tribe of Israel. 63—Frark Merriwell on the Desert; the Skeleton. 64--Frank Merriwell’s Underground Search; the Buried H: iress. 65—Frank Merriwell in California; or, Grent ‘Tour. 66—Prize Plot Story; 67—-Frank Merriwells Yacht; or, Coust & —Frank Merriwell’s Combination; cr, Athletes 69 —Frank Merriweil’s Red Rival W—Frank Merriwell’s T:xas Tournament; or, §px Among the Cowboys. 71—Fr.nk Merriwell’s Nire; or, Surprising the Southerp — League. ; 7% —Frank Merriwell’s Shot; or, Ont with the Guthig Gun Club ot 73 Frank Merriwell’s Flyer; or. The Winning Whe] > 74—Frank Mrrriwell’s ‘Thoroughbred or, Hi nest) © Against Crook: dness. a 75 Frank Mertiwell’s Enemy; or, Rivals of the BI Riage. 76 —Frank Merriwell’s Crew; Potomac. (7—Frank Me riwell’s Hunt; or, In at the Death. 78 —-Frank Merriwell’s Blow: or, Unnashin. a Raseal 77 79 —Frank Merriwell’s Return to Xue; or, The My; ol of the Examination P, pers. j ynil g Pull ae) 7 or, ‘lhe Mystery of, or, Saving The End of the Frank Merriwell as the Star. ‘The Chase Down the ~ The All Ror or, The Champions of 80—F'rank Merriwell »s ‘‘Anchor; orp bb in the ‘lug of War. 81—Fiank Merriwell’s Initiation; or, ‘The of Pi Gamma. ae §2—Frank Merriwell’s Sign; or, The Secret Student. 83 —Frank M+ rriwell as Full pag or, True to His Color : 7 84—Frank Merriwell’s Duel; or. A Point of Honor, , 85—Frank Merriwell’s Matis or, Subcuing a Bully. a 86 —Frank Merriwell’s Secret; or, A-Fiiend in Need. a 87— Frank Merriwell’s Revenge: or, Aroused at Last. i. 88—Frank Merriwell’s Capture; or The Black Schooner. 89—Frank Merriwell’s Chum; or, ‘!he Hand of a Friend. | 90—Frank Merriwell’s Double Shoot; or, Winning in — the Box. d 91—Frank Merriwell’s Danger; or, Disgrace. 92.—Frank Merriwell’s Wager; 93-—Frank Merriwell In ‘Training; the Midnight Prowler. 94—Frank Merriwell’s Courage; The Shadow of or, Bound to Win. or, The Mystery of or, Loyal to the + 5 { STREET & SMITH, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK. MASAI For Sale by all Newsdealers. ~Every Saturday.