The Mark of the Knife

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Ernst Clayton Holt. The Mark of the Knife

CHAPTER I. THE NEWCOMER

CHAPTER II. A BLEMISH

CHAPTER III. A PLAN AND A GAME

CHAPTER IV. TWO VISITS AND A THEFT

CHAPTER V. TEENY-BITS' CHANCE

CHAPTER VI. DISCOVERIES

CHAPTER VII. ON THE EVE OF THE STRUGGLE

CHAPTER VIII. STRANGE CAPTORS

CHAPTER IX. THE GREAT GAME

CHAPTER X. AT LINCOLN HALL

CHAPTER XI. MYSTERIES IN PART EXPLAINED

CHAPTER XII. A VISIT TO CHUAN KAI's

CHAPTER XIII. DAYS OF PLEASURE

CHAPTER XIV. A TALE OF THE FAR EAST

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In the middle of October Teeny-bits surprised every one by going out for the football team. Even his most loyal friends thought that he had lost his senses. The team was particularly heavy this year; the first-string men were big, well-formed, aggressive players of the type of Neil Durant, who weighed one hundred and sixty pounds with not an ounce of fat, and who was quite as good a half-back, it was said, as many college players. The most that Teeny-bits could hope for was a place on the scrub, but that meant drudgery of the worst sort and a daily mauling that was enough to take the courage out of larger boys than he.

"They'll make Hamburger steak out of you!" warned Snubby Turner. "You'd better not do it."

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Bassett, who was ready for any excitement that offered itself, climbed into the buggy after Campbell, while one of the other fellows untied the hitch-rope.

"All right, we're off," said Tracey, lifting the whip from the socket and snapping it vigorously.

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