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CHAPTER XXIV


TWO OF A KIND


"There is another resignation to act on," said Dr. Rudden, after a pause, and, somehow he did not seem half as worried over it as Luke had hoped he would be. "What shall we do with it?"

"Take it!" exclaimed Tom, and it was accepted with a promptness that startled the former captain.

"The action taken to-night makes it necessary to elect a new manager and a captain," went on the professor. "Perhaps the manager should be elected first. Whom will you have?"

"Peaches Lantfeld," called some.

"Teeter Nelson," said others.

"George Bland! Sister Davis! Ward Gerard! Tommy Barton," called various lads. There were more nominations, but Peaches received the majority of votes, and was declared elected. Teeter was the first to congratulate him, and the others followed.

"Now a captain," suggested the chairman.

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