CONTENTS

CHAPTER   PAGE
I Getting in Bad 11
II A Call-down from the Manager 17
III The Riot at the Theater 24
IV One Against Scores 31
V Friendly Buck Fargo 36
VI Who Was to Blame? 42
VII Without Gratitude 48
VIII The Man Who Knew 56
IX Something Sub-Rosa 63
X “When the Cat’s Away” 70
XI All In 77
XII Lefty’s Failure 82
XIII The Discharged Waiter 89
XIV Bert Elgin’s Luck 97
XV The Reason Why 103
XVI The Purloined Letter 108
XVII Guile 114
XVIII The Man in the Corridor 120
XIX Not Quite Proven 125
XX Janet Harting Wonders 131
XXI The Yellow Streak 139
XXII Lefty’s Chance Comes 147
XXIII There’s Many a Slip 152
XXIV The Unexpected 158
XXV The Struggle 167
XXVI Gaining Ground 174
XXVII A Chance to Make Good 181
XXVIII A Bad Beginning 186
XXIX Taking a Brace 193
XXX The Tricky Twirler 198
XXXI Once Too Often 206
XXXII The Spiking of Schaeffer 213
XXXIII The Telegram 219
XXXIV Nothing Else Possible 225
XXXV For Want of a Lie 231
XXXVI Dropped Out of Sight 240
XXXVII Opening the Season 245
XXXVIII The Two Managers 250
XXXIX The Meeting in the Grandstand 254
XL The Surprise 263
XLI The Beginning of the Game 270
XLII The Truth at Last 279
XLIII The Lucky Seventh 285
XLIV The Leading Run 294
XLV Lefty’s Triumph 299
XLVI How It All Happened 305