St Nicholas [serial] . ly certain from the concentrationdisplayed that it had nothing to do with Evan was right. The result of Robs laborappeared on the notice-ball in Academy Hall thenext morning. A meeting will be held this evening at 7:15 in 8 FirstHouse to consider the formation of an Independent Foot-ball Eleven. All are asked to attend, whether players ornot. Howard Langton. Chapter VIII THE INDEPENDENTS ORGANIZE Howard Wellington was a senior, a quiet fel-low, much respected by the rest of the school,with a positive passion for reforming things. Robwas well
St Nicholas [serial] . ly certain from the concentrationdisplayed that it had nothing to do with Evan was right. The result of Robs laborappeared on the notice-ball in Academy Hall thenext morning. A meeting will be held this evening at 7:15 in 8 FirstHouse to consider the formation of an Independent Foot-ball Eleven. All are asked to attend, whether players ornot. Howard Langton. Chapter VIII THE INDEPENDENTS ORGANIZE Howard Wellington was a senior, a quiet fel-low, much respected by the rest of the school,with a positive passion for reforming things. Robwas well aware of this passion and had countedon it to secure Wellingtons cooperation in hisplan. Rob had a persuasive tongue, and it had ntbeen difficult for him to convince Wellington thatif anything ever needed reformation it was thefoot-ball situation at Riverport School. Welling-ton had held off at first, viewing Robs scheme asmerely a revolt on the part of disappointed candi-dates; but Rob had soon persuaded him that the. IT WAS A SILENT AND DISQUSTEP THRONG THAT STRAGGLED BACK TO SCHOOL, 51 512 KINGSFORD, QUARTER [April, movement was purely patriotic, and Wellingtonhad enthusiastically pledged himself to the cause. The rooms in First House are fairly good-sized,but none of them will hold a hundred-odd boys,and so by a quarter past seven the audience wasoverflowing through thedoor into the Hopkins nor Pren-tiss was there, but theywere represented by two oftheir ablest lieutenants,Carter and Connor. Besidesthese there were at least ahalf-dozen of the FirstTeam present, probably outof mere curiosity. TheSecond Team was muchbetter represented. In fact,Riverport School, with theexceptions already, indica-ted and save for the ab-sence of a handful of olderfellows who looked on thething as utter nonsense,was on hand when Welling-ton, jammed tightly againstthe window-ledge, calledthe meeting to order. Fellows, he announced,for some time, in fact forsomething over a year
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