THE HOUR AND THE MAN.
Casper Silence succeeded in repressing his anxiety and disappointment as
inning after inning passed and neither side secured a run.
The Rovers had fancied ere beginning the game that it would be an easy
thing to down Merriwell's team. They had believed Frank's reputation as
a pitcher to be exaggerated. They were confident of their batting
ability, but gradually that confidence weakened before the wonderful
boxwork of Merriwell, who seemed in his best form. Fortunately most of
the decisions against the visitors were not close, and there were few
excuses for kicks had McCann and the men been inclined to keep it up.
Ephraim Gallup could not throw off his feeling of anxiety and
nervousness, and he was thankful as the innings passed and no
opportunity came for him to display what he could do in the field. At
bat he was a failure. In past days Gallup had batted well, but to-day
Merriwell's wisdom in placing him far down on the batting order became
apparent as the Vermonter continued to strike out. In the sixth inning
Ephraim had a chance to drive in a run, for, with two men gone, the
Merries pushed a runner round to third.
Again Ephraim struck out.
"You vos a peach uf a hitter--I don'd pelief!" sneered Dunnerwurst.
"Gol dinged if I could hit a haouse!" muttered Gallup. "I'm jest abaout
the rottenest thing that ever swung a bat! I wish I was to hum on the
farm!"
In the last of the seventh the Rovers had their opportunity. With one
man out, they landed a runner on the third corner. The next hitter
succeeded in lifting a short fly to center field.
Gallup made a wonderful run for the ball, but muffed it, although it
struck fairly in his hands. As Ephraim dropped the ball the runner at
third started for the plate.
Now Gallup had a reputation as a thrower. Many a time from deep center
he had cut off a man at the plate. With remarkable quickness for one who
seemed so awkward he caught up the ball and lined it to Hodge.
Had Ephraim taken more time it would have been better for him. His
anxiety caused him to throw with too much haste, and, as a result, the
ball passed fully ten feet over Bart's head.
The runner scored.
Before Hodge could recover the ball and return it to the diamond the man
who had hit it was safe on third.
Basil Bearover slapped Casper Silence on the shoulder.
"We've got them now!" he chuckled. "They'll never get a run off Bender!
The game is ours! You've won that ten thousand!"
"It looks that way," replied Silence, as he produced a fresh cigarette
and lighted it. "It's a pretty good thing for me that we have got them.
I counted on winning this game a great deal easier than this. Had we
lost, I'd been practically busted. I'm afraid the Rovers would have been
compelled to disband."
Imagine the feelings of Gallup. After making that throw Ephraim walked
round and round in a circle for at least half a dozen times.
"That's abaout the most expensive gol-darned fool thing I ever done!" he
mumbled to himself. "Waal, by gum, I deserve it! Any man that's fool
enough to bet every dollar he's gut in the world on a baseball game
oughter lose. I don't keer a rap for myself, but Frank was right in
saying I had no business to throw away money that my wife and kid has a
claim on. I guess this will teach me a lesson. I won't be able to look
Teresa in the face arter this game is over."
He was aroused by Merry's voice calling him to take his position and
play ball.
"Better put a baby in my place, Frank." he said dolefully. "Any blamed
fool could do better'n I'm doing to-day. I guess I've lost the game."
"The game isn't over yet," said Frank grimly. "We'll play it out."
The Rovers secured no more runs in that inning. Nevertheless, Bender had
no difficulty in blanking the Merries in the first of the eighth.
In the last of the eighth just three men faced Merriwell. He struck them
all out.
"It's all over!" cried Mike McCann, with a grin, as the Rovers again
took the field. "This finishes it!"
Frank was the first man up.
In spite of Bender's skill Merriwell cracked out a clean single. Badger
followed with a bunt that advanced Merry to second. Buck was thrown out
at first.
Diamond tried hard for a hit, with Frank leading off second ready to do
his best to score.
Jack finally drove a grounder into the hands of McCann, who whistled it
over for a put-out.
"Two gone!" shouted the captain of the Rovers. "Only one more to git,
Bender, me boy!"
A few of the disappointed spectators began to leave the field.
The first two balls pitched by Bender were strikes, Browning touching
neither of them. Then the pitcher tried some wide ones on the big first
baseman of the Merries. Bruce had a good eye, and he let the wide ones
pass.
Two balls were called. Bender attempted to curve one over, but missed
the plate by fully six inches.
"Three balls!" came from Carker.
"Smash it if he puts one over!" called Frank.
Browning gripped his bat and stood ready.
The crowd was silent and breathless.
Bender tried to put a speedy ball across Bruce's shoulders, but it was
far too high.
"Four balls--take your base!" cried Carker.
"The best thing you could have done, Mitt," laughed McCann. "Here comes
the tall jay, and he never made a hit in his life."
Ephraim Gallup's hands were trembling as he picked up a bat and walked
out. His legs were weak, and there was a mist before his eyes.
"I'll never touch it!" he whispered to himself. "There's too much
depending on it; I can't do it!"
As if from a great distance he seemed to hear Frank Merriwell crying:
"Just a little single, Ephraim! You never failed in a pinch in all your
life! You can't fail now!"
Those words seemed to brush the mist from Gallup's eyes, and something
like confidence crept back into his heavy heart.
Nevertheless he merely fouled Bender's first shoot.
"One strike!"
The next ball was far too high, but Gallup swung at it and missed.
"Two strikes!"
"All over! all over!" whooped McCann.
The spectators in the stand and on the bleachers were standing.
"I knowed I couldn't do it!" thought Gallup.
Once more he heard Frank calling to him.
"For Teresa and the baby!" cried Merriwell. "Lace it out, Gallup! Get
against it!"
For Teresa and the baby! Those words rang through Ephraim's brain. Was
it possible he was going to prove himself a miserable failure under such
circumstances? With only himself to consider he might fail, but he had
believed himself capable of great things for the sake of Teresa and the
baby. He was capable of great things! He knew it now, and suddenly his
hands were steady as iron. There was not the slightest quiver of his
nerves. His eyes were clear, and his face wore a look of confidence as
he watched Bender prepare to deliver the ball.
The pitcher started the ball wide, but, with a sudden break it took an
inshoot across the plate.
Gallup knew he was going to hit the ball when he swung at it. He hit it
fairly and squarely with all the strength and skill that he possessed.
It brought a wild roar from the crowd as the ball went sailing out on a
line about fifteen feet from the ground.
Apparently Grifford would have little trouble in catching the ball. He
changed his position a foot or two and prepared to take it. Just before
it reached him he made a sudden backward move and then leaped
desperately into the air, thrusting up his hand.
Instead of dropping, as Grifford had expected, the ball held up in a
marvelous manner and passed fully two feet beyond his reach as he made
that leap. It finally touched the ground and went bounding away, with
Grifford rushing after it as fast as he could race over the turf.
The white chalk of the base lines seemed to spin out beneath Gallup's
feet like a thread as he literally flew over the ground. He heard a
sound like the roaring of many waters. It was the joyous shouting of the
great crowd as Merriwell crossed the plate and Diamond came speeding in
from third.
Gallup did not realize that these two runs put the Merries in the lead.
He was determined to score if possible. As he came up from second he saw
Hans Dunnerwurst dancing like a clown and furiously waving his arms,
while he yelled:
"Ephie, you vos a tandy! Ephie, you vos a peach! Ephie, I luf you! Dot
score vill git you, und don'd nobody forgit him! Mine cootness, dot vos
der most peautiful home run you efer saw in my life!"
A homer it was, for Gallup reached the pan ahead of the ball, which
Grifford had returned to the diamond.
Frank seized Ephraim by the hand as he came over the plate. The rest of
the team rushed at the Vermonter, hammering him joyously over the head
and shoulders, much to the agitation of Teresa, who feared her husband
had done some terrible thing and that his friends were beating him on
that account.
Bender looked sick and weary as Carson seized a bat and rushed out to
the plate. The pitcher delivered an easy one, which Berlin drove into
left field. Roach took the ball on the run, and this made the third out.
Casper Silence was like a caged tiger as the Rovers gathered at the
bench.
"Get in here and win this game, you slobs!" he hissed. "If you don't,
this team disbands to-night!"
Against Frank Merriwell's pitching there was no chance for them,
however. As in the previous inning, only three men faced Merry, and all
three struck out.
Gallup overtook Frank ere the excited crowd that rushed onto the field
could reach Merry.
"It's ten thousand for the consumptives' home at Wellsburg, by ginger!"
laughed Ephraim.
"Remember your promise, Gallup," said Frank, as he seized the
Vermonter's hand. "You'll never bet again."
"Never again!" vowed Ephraim.
Then, like Merriwell, he was caught up by the rejoicing spectators, who
triumphantly bore these two heroes of the game around the diamond, while
they cheered themselves hoarse.
When Merry at last had been successful in freeing himself from the grasp
of jubilant admirers, he joined Inza and the ladies who had watched the
game from the stand. Frank and his wife had fallen a little behind the
others as they were approaching the house, and they were speaking
quietly when a heavy slap on Frank's back caused him to turn around
quickly. He was confronted by Berlin Carson.
"A great game, Merry, old man!" exclaimed Berlin enthusiastically. "By
Jove! that wing of yours has lost none of the tricks that enabled it to
send team after team to the bad in the old days at Yale. And
Gallup--Gallup! What a wallop that was he gave the ball in the last, eh?
Great Caesar, I feel almost as exultant over it as if I had made it
myself, but I'm more than half inclined to believe that it was something
you called to him that put him on his mettle. What was it, Merry?"
But before Frank had an opportunity to speak, Bart Hodge, who was
several paces distant, called Berlin's name.
"See you later--see you later, Merry," laughed Berlin, as he patted
Frank on the back and broke away.
Then, with almost boyish lightness, he ran in the direction of Hodge.
Frank and Inza looked after him smilingly. Inza laid a hand on one of
her husband's arms.
"These last few days appear to have made quite a difference in Berlin,"
she said.
"Yes, Inza," replied Frank, as he pressed his wife's hand, "yes, and the
fact that the old chap is a boy again is due to that suggestion of
yours. Had it not been for you, the 'old flock' would not have been
here, casting over Merry Home the glamour of the good old times. The
spirit which our old friends have invoked is one that could not be
resisted even by faithful old Berlin Carson, who had learned to love,
and since has learned to forget, the unfortunate young woman who tried
to rob Frank Merriwell of his son."
"And, after all, it is Frank Merriwell's son whom we have to thank for
the happiness which these last few weeks have brought," Inza murmured
softly.
THE END.
No. 138, the next thrilling tale to appear in the MERRIWELL SERIES is
"Dick Merriwell's Team Mate," by Burt L. Standish.
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Stories of Frank and Dick Merriwell
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4--Frank Merriwell's Trip West By Burt L. Standish
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42--Frank Merriwell's Stage Hit By Burt L. Standish
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44--Frank Merriwell in England By Burt L. Standish
45--Frank Merriwell on the Boulevards By Burt L. Standish
46--Frank Merriwell's Duel By Burt L. Standish
47--Frank Merriwell's Double Shot By Burt L. Standish
48--Frank Merriwell's Baseball Victories By Burt L. Standish
49--Frank Merriwell's Confidence By Burt L. Standish
50--Frank Merriwell's Auto By Burt L. Standish
51--Frank Merriwell's Fun By Burt L. Standish
52--Frank Merriwell's Generosity By Burt L. Standish
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54--Frank Merriwell's Temptation By Burt L. Standish
55--Frank Merriwell on Top By Burt L. Standish
56--Frank Merriwell's Luck By Burt L. Standish
57--Frank Merriwell's Mascot By Burt L. Standish
58--Frank Merriwell's Reward By Burt L. Standish
59--Frank Merriwell's Phantom By Burt L. Standish
60--Frank Merriwell's Faith By Burt L. Standish
61--Frank Merriwell's Victories By Burt L. Standish
62--Frank Merriwell's Iron Nerve By Burt L. Standish
63--Frank Merriwell in Kentucky By Burt L. Standish
64--Frank Merriwell's Power By Burt L. Standish
65--Frank Merriwell's Shrewdness By Burt L. Standish
66--Frank Merriwell's Set Back By Burt L. Standish
67--Frank Merriwell's Search By Burt L. Standish
68--Frank Merriwell's Club By Burt L. Standish
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70--Frank Merriwell's False Friend By Burt L. Standish
71--Frank Merriwell's Strong Arm By Burt L. Standish
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73--Frank Merriwell's Brother By Burt L. Standish
74--Frank Merriwell's Marvel By Burt L. Standish
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76--Dick Merriwell At Fardale By Burt L. Standish
77--Dick Merriwell's Glory By Burt L. Standish
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125--Frank Merriwell's Marriage By Burt L. Standish
126--Dick Merriwell, the Wizard By Burt L. Standish
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128--Dick Merriwell's Return By Burt L. Standish
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132--Dick Merriwell's Polo Team By Burt L. Standish
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134--Frank Merriwell's New Boy By Burt L. Standish
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136--Dick Merriwell's Dare By Burt L. Standish
137--Frank Merriwell's Son By Burt L. Standish
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139--Frank Merriwell's Leaguers By Burt L. Standish
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[Transcriber's Note: There was no table of contents in the original
edition. A table of contents has been created for this electronic
edition.
Advertisements have been moved from the front of the text to the back.
In addition, the following typographical errors from the original
edition have been corrected.
The subtitle has been changed from "A CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK" to "A CHIP
OFF THE OLD BLOCK".
In Chapter VIII, "his sytem of signals" has been changed to "his system
of signals".
In Chapter XIV, a missing period has been added after "'What's that?'
asked Merry".
In Chapter XXI, "Didn't you introduce me." has been changed to "Didn't
you introduce me?"
In Chapter XXIV, "should she see Murilla free his knife hand" has been
changed to "should she see Murillo free his knife hand".
In Chapter XXXI, a missing period has been added after "Why, it would
break the poor creature's heart".
In Chapter XXXVII, "on the first page youll find something" has been
changed to "on the first page you'll find something".
In Chapter XXXVIII, a missing quotation mark has been added after "we'll
go out now."
In Chapter XXXIX, "Clever took the ball handsomely" has been changed to
"Clover took the ball handsomely".
In Chapter XLI, "A great came, Merry, old man!" has been changed to "A
great game, Merry, old man!"
In the list of Frank Merriwell novels, "Frank Merriwells' Victories" has
been changed to "Frank Merriwell's Victories".
A blank line has been removed from the middle of the paragraph beginning
"In order that there may be no confusion..."
In the description of the Adventure Library, "Spendid, Interesting, Big
Stories" has been changed to "Splendid, Interesting, Big Stories".]
End of Project Gutenberg's Frank Merriwell's Son, by Burt L. Standish