Tip Top Weekly No. 80: Frank Merriwell as 'Anchor' — page 21: what you’re looking at

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FRANK MERRIWELEL AS ANCHOR. effect from it at all, and I guess I thought that a drop of wine would brace me up.” “*T see it all!’ exclaimed Frank. © The others looked at him inquiringly. ‘Knockout drops!’’ he said. ““By Jove! I bet you’re right!’ ex- claimed Rowland. “It was anything to get the Yale clfampion fuddled and they knew well enough that he wouldn’t take more than one glass of ale, so unless I’m greatly inistaken, they drugged his ale and got him completely unbalanced.” “It’s a monstrous outrage!’ Rowland. ‘Hill looked contem ptuous and said nothing, Merriwell turned to Mellor with the reniark: ‘Lie stilla while longer and get break- fast when you want it. DIl see vou in your room later, and 1f you think you’re going to be fit, we’ll have you in the con- test to-night just the same.” “Great Scott!’ cried Mellor, ‘‘vot wouldn’t bar me out of that, would you ?”? ‘We were thinking of it,’’ said Hill. ‘You'll have to pull yourself together, Mellor,’’ said Frank, seriously, ‘‘for-un- less you can make a good showing we don’t any of us want you to appear.”? Mellor bowed his head upon his hands, and the others left him. As soon as they were out of hearing, Hill said: | ‘Perhaps it’s nothing better than could be expected of a freshman but anyhow, cried we've got to bring this matter to the at-. tention of the Princeton manayers at once.”’ The others agreed, and they went to the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where they found the Princeton managers at break- fast. The case was not explained to the Princeton men in full, but enough was: said to make them certain that Yale had reason to suspect a trick on the part of men. wearing Princeton colors. 19 The indignation of the Princeton man- agers was too great for expression; one of them was so hot headed that he wanted a row at once with Merriwell for seeming to suggest that Princeton men could be capable of such treacherous conduct. Frank hastened to assure him that no Yale man thought such a thing possible. “We think some rascals are plaving off under Princeton’s colors,’’ he said. The Princeton managers were sure that this must be the case, for no students had acconipanied them to the city excepting those who were to take part in the con- tests. They declared their intention of keep- ing their eyes open for men wearing the Princetun rosettes, and promised to do everything possible to have such men ar- rested, if any charge could be brouglit against them. . So there the matter had to rest. There was no doubt that the Princeton men were in earnest, and that they would do what they could, but that did not seem to promise very much. The scoundrels who were anxious. to. make money by betting on Princeton, could not be arrested for simply wearing an orange rosette, and there was no way of preventing further trouble, therefore, except for Yale men to hang together and take the greatest care not to put them- selves in the way of strangers. It was agreed by Frank and his com- panions that nothing should he said to the contestants about the matter, for fear that they might get nervous, and so be unfitted for doing their best in the even- ing’s gaines. The day passed, therefore, very quietly for the Yale athletes. They went ina body to a gymnasium and had two or three hours practice, and in the after-. noon they had a walk through Central Park. Mellor appeared to be quite himself, except that he was silent, and that he BGOMIGIOO (CO