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The High School Captain of the Team - Dick & Co. Leading the Athletic Vanguard by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
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is an envelope in which one of the copies was received by the
captain of a rival football team. You will note that the sender,
while understanding something about the use of a type machine,
was plainly a novice in directing an envelope on the typewriter.
So he addressed this envelope in handwriting. Here is the envelope
in question, and here is one of Mr. Drayne's school examination
papers, also in his own handwriting. I will ask the members of
the Board to examine both."

There was silence, while the copies passed from hand to hand,
Drayne losing color at this point.

"Be brassy!" he whispered to himself. "You'll pull through, Phin,
old boy."

"I am sorry to say, Mr. Drayne, that the evidence appears to be
against you," declared the chairman slowly.

"It may, sir," returned the boy, "but it isn't conclusive evidence."

"Have you anything more to say, Mr. Morton?" asked the chairman,
looking at the submaster.

"Plenty, Mr. Chairman, if the Board will listen to me."

"Proceed, Mr. Morton."

The football coach thereupon launched into a swiftly spoken tirade
against the "brand of coward and sneak" who would betray his school
in such a fashion. Without naming Phin, Mr. Morton analyzed the
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