113

"'My, what a temper!'" 123

"At last Roy stumbled over a root, went head over heels
into a clump of bushes" 139

Mr. Cobb and the search-party looking for Roy 151

"'Look where you're going, Mr. Cobb!'" 161

"They had gathered chairs of all descriptions from all
over the school" 179

"Chub's tambourine flew whirling out of his hand" 187

"It was Roy who dashed across the stage" 193

Roy giving instruction in hockey 199

"Schonberg made a last despairing effort when twenty
feet from the line" 217

"Quiet fell over Fox Island" 245

"Roy held his breath and waited" 261

"Then slowly, he headed away in the darkness" 269

"It was unlocked and the crimson sweater lay in the top
of the till" 289

"'When you're down on your luck,' he murmured, 'grin
as hard as you can grin'" 307

"'The way that gal sassed me was a caution!'" 315

"Ten hard ones made a difference" 331

"'About this!'" 347

"Roy's bearers waited" 365

THE CRIMSON SWEATER

THE CRIMSON SWEATER

CHAPTER I

THE CRIMSON SWEATER'S FIRST APPEARANCE

"Hello, Lobster!"

The boy in the crimson sweater raised a pair of blue eyes to the
speaker's face and a little frown crept into the sun-burned forehead;
but there was no answer.

"Where'd you get that sweater?"

The older boy, a tall, broad-shouldered, deep-chested youth of nineteen,
with a dark, not altogether pleasant face, paused on his way down the
gymnasium steps and put the question sneeringly. Below, on the gravelled
path leading to the athletic field, a little group of fellows had turned
and were watching expectantly; Horace Burlen had a way of taking conceit
out of new boys that was always interesting. To be sure, in the present
case the new boy didn't look especially conceited--