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                      _The_ SPIRIT OF THE SCHOOL




BY RALPH HENRY BARBOUR.

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[Illustration: “A more harmless youth it would have been hard to find.”]




                                 _The_
                                SPIRIT
                             OF THE SCHOOL

                          RALPH HENRY BARBOUR

           Author of “The Half-Back,” “Weatherby’s Inning,”
                         “On Your Mark,” etc.


                            [Illustration]


                        D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
                               NEW YORK
                                 1907




                          Copyright, 1907, by
                          PERRY MASON COMPANY


                          Copyright, 1907, by
                        D. APPLETON AND COMPANY


_Published, September, 1907_




                                  TO

                          JOSEPH SHERMAN FORD




CONTENTS


 CHAPTER                                         PAGE
     I.--AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE IN A NEW RÔLE          1
    II.--HANSEL DECLARES FOR REFORM                20
   III.--MR. AMES TELLS A STORY                    36
    IV.--SCHOOL AGAINST TOWN                       56
     V.--HANSEL MEETS PHINEAS DORR                 73
    VI.--THE CAUSE GAINS A CONVERT                 91
   VII.--THE FIRST SKIRMISH                       111
  VIII.--MR. AMES STATES HIS POSITION             131
    IX.--THE SECOND SKIRMISH                      149
     X.--HANSEL LEAVES THE TEAM                   159
    XI.--HANSEL MAKES A BARGAIN                   176
   XII.--THREE IN CONSPIRACY                      191
  XIII.--FAIRVIEW SENDS A PROTEST                 216
   XIV.--THE SPIRIT OF THE SCHOOL                 241
    XV.--THE GAME WITH FAIRVIEW                   255




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS[*]


                                                            FACING
                                                              PAGE

 “A more harmless youth it would have been hard to
     find.”                                          _Frontispiece_

 “‘I am looking for Bert Middleton,’ he announced.”             12

 “‘Play the game the best you can, and let me manage your
     campaign.’”                                               108

 “In place of his former attire was an immaculate suit of
     evening dress.”                                           118

 “He was beginning to be looked upon as ‘queer.’”              156

 “‘Who do you think will win, sir?’ asked Phin.”               192

 “‘Gee! I didn’t know I represented anything!’”                236

 “Lockhard... was streaking around the right end of his
     line.”                                                    264

[*] These illustrations are used by arrangement with the publishers of
_The Youth’s Companion_.




THE SPIRIT OF THE SCHOOL




CHAPTER I

AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE IN A NEW RÔLE


“It’s all well enough for you to sit there and grin like a gargle.”

“Gargoyle is what you mean, my boy!”

“Well, gargoyle,” continued Bert Middleton. “What’s the difference?
Of course, it’s easy enough for you to laugh about it; it isn’t your
funeral; but I guess if you’d had all your plans made up only to have
them knocked higher than a kite at the last minute----”

“I know,” said Harry Folsom soothingly. “It’s rotten mean luck. I’d
have told the doctor that I wouldn’t do it.”

“But it wasn’t his fault, you see. It’s dad that’s to blame for the
whole business. You see, it was this way. The Danas used to live up in
Feltonville when I was a kid, and dad and Mr. Dana were second cousins
or something, and were