d that, sweetheart," he said, consolingly. "We can live on
my baseball salary if Uncle Jim cuts us off."

"Cut you off, nonsense!" the old man exclaimed testily. "You'll have
all my money if you behave yourself and obey me. Young scoundrel never
would obey me."

"I've learned to obey in baseball, uncle," replied Kohinoor seriously.
"Ask Mr. Clancy if I haven't."

"I'm so glad, Larry," said Miss Tabor brightly, "that you asked me
before I knew you were going to be rich."

"Young rascal must have learned some sense," growled his uncle. "He
picked out just the girl I wanted him to. When I saw you at the game,
my dear, I said to myself: 'Now if Larry would only choose a girl like
that, I'd make her my daughter.'"

"You're the worst flatterer of them all--Mr.--Lawrence," said the girl,
blushing and laughing.

"You must call me Uncle Jim, my dear," he insisted in his most
tyrannical tones. "And understand, Miss, I'm boss of this family."

"By the way, Kirkland," said Technicalities Feehan, who had been busily
engaged studying some statistics he had taken from his pocket, "what
did you hit the last year you were at Cascade College?"

"Kirkland?" exclaimed Miss Tabor. "Then your name isn't James
Lawrence?"

"I forgot," he responded, laughing at her bewilderment. "Your name
will be Mrs. James Lawrence Kirkland; I was named for Uncle Jim. How
did you find it out?" he added, turning to Feehan.

"I knew it the second day you were with the Bears," replied Feehan. "I
have all your records, excepting those of your final year at the
university. Did you hit .332 or .318? The records do not agree."

Ten days later, on the night after the Bears triumphantly won the
World's Championship, there was a jolly party in the banquet hall of
one of the great hotels. Jimmy McCarthy was giving a farewell dinner
to his friends and comrades of the Bear team. The dinner had been
eaten, the toasts to the team and its manager drunk, and McCarthy arose.

"Boys," he said, "I'm not going to try to make a speech. I want to
thank you all for your kindness to the tramp who came to you when he
needed friends. And now my uncle has a little announcement to make
which I know you all will be glad to hear."

A round of applause greeted the testy old gentleman as he arose,
scolding his nephew for calling upon him. In the ten days that he had
traveled with them he had become the idol of the Bears, and he proudly
claimed credit for thei