Chapter LV: A Beautiful Bingle

In the eighth inning Manhattan betrayed dangerous symptoms, for she made a run and filled the bases, with two men out. Kates then struck out the last batter.

But the score was now four to two. Jones urged his men to get after Hogan without delay, and they responded in a promising manner. In a sharp batting rally, they drove in a score, but a fancy double play cut short their chances of tying or taking the lead.

Manhattan abated none of its fierceness when the ninth opened. The first batter landed on Kates for a safe single. Following this, came a fierce drive that got away from Tucker, and two men were on bases.

A moment later Sam hit a batter on the hip, and the sacks were filled.

Marone coached jubilantly, announcing his belief that something like a dozen runs would be chalked down to Manhattan’s credit in the ninth.

It was the critical point of the game, and Kates got the rattles at last. Try as he might, he could not find the plate, and, as a result, he walked the next batter, forcing in a run.

“It’s all off,” announced Bill Toleman, to his companions in the stand. “He couldn’t find the rubber now to save his life.”

Dagett seized Toleman’s wrist.

“Look!” he said. “What’s that mean?”

“What?”

“Merriwell——”

“By Jove! Kates is going to the bench!” exclaimed Ditson. “Who’ll pitch?”

“Merriwell,” said Poland. “He’s going into the box as sure as fate.”

“But he has a lame shoulder,” snickered Dagett.

“He’s let Kates lose the game,” said Toleman, “and now he’s going to show off. It’s too late for him to do anything.”

“That’s right,” nodded Ditson. “The game is over. Merriwell ought to be batted after sitting on the bench and letting those fellows have their own way.”

Mike Marone stood, hands on his hips, and laughed as Dick walked out to pitch.

“Like to limber up a little, Merriwell?” he inquired. “Give you all the time you want.”

“Thanks for your generosity,” said Dick. “I don’t believe I’ll bother to limber up.”

“Wow! wow! wow!” barked O’Mora. “He don’t have to limber up! He thinks we’re easy.”

Dick received the ball, and toed the slab in a position to pitch with his left hand. He could not use his right, but he hoped to check the enemy, just the same. The first ball delivered was so wild that it came near getting past Buckhart, who stopped it by a marvelous sidelong leap.

“Wow! wow! wow!” came again from O’Mora. “What do you think of that? Better use your other hand, Merriwell. You can’t find the pan with your left.”

“Everybody run!” shouted Marone. “Score on the first passed ball!”

“There won’t be any,” muttered Buckhart, as he resumed his position behind the bat and gave Dick a signal.

The next ball pitched by Dick came over the plate. It looked good to the batter, but he simply popped up an easy fly that was taken by Otis Fitch.

“Don’t try to kill the ball!” shouted Marone. “Don’t try to knock the cover off! You can all hit it!”

“Sure you can hit it,” said Buckhart, in a low tone; “but hitting it safe is what counts.”

When Dick had fooled the next batter with two elusive benders, it began to look as if hitting the ball was not such an easy thing, after all. Forced into a corner, the batter finally lifted a high foul, which Buckhart got under and gathered in.

“That’s two, partner,” laughed the Texan, as he tossed the ball to Dick. “Why, they couldn’t hit you safely if you pitched with your feet.”

“Get in there, now,” urged Marone, as O’Mora trotted to the plate. “A little single is all we want. A little safety is the goods. You know where to put it, Mat.”

But suddenly Dick bored over a fast one, and O’Mora literally threw himself off his feet in the effort to get against it.

“Wow! wow! wow!” he yapped, as he picked himself up. “Where’d you get that speed, Merriwell? How can you do it with your little left? Be gentle! be gentle! Give me a chance to look at the ball when it comes over.”

“All right,” said Dick. “How’s this?”

He lobbed up a slow one, and O’Mora nearly broke his back reaching out to hit the ball before it was anywhere near the plate.

Marone snapped at the batter, and O’Mora shook his head with a comical look of dismay.

“I won’t strike out!” he muttered to himself. But that was precisely what he did do. Dick worked with all the craft at his command, and finally led O’Mora into reaching for a nasty curve which he could not touch.

Yale came to bat in the last of the ninth, with the score four to two against them.

“We’ve got to have two to tie and three to win,” said Dick cheerfully. “Here’s where we get them.”

But the wrong end of the batting list was up. Jones was to be followed by Spratt, Bigelow, and Fitch, the three weakest hitters on the team.

“Get to first, Blessed,” urged Merriwell. “Get there somehow.”

Although the captain felt that it might not do any good, he stalked forth and smote the ball a terrific crack that landed him on the initial sack.

“Hit and run, Spratt—that’s the game,” murmured Merriwell, as Jack walked out to the pan.

But Spratt simply lifted a high infield fly that was captured by Marone.

“Looks bad, partner,” whispered Buckhart, in Dick’s ear.

Merriwell made no reply. Claxton and Tucker were coaching. Bouncer Bigelow, looking pale and shaking like a jellyfish, walked out and swung with all his might at the first ball pitched by Hogan. The ball struck on the under side of the bat, shot down to the ground, and twisted off to one side with a queer, toplike motion.

Without the remotest idea as to what he had done, Bigelow hurled the bat straight up into the air and let himself out for first, while Jones went to second. It was a lucky stab, for the ball, after threatening to roll foul, stopped inside the base line, and Bouncer got a safe hit in this manner.

“Two to tie and three to win, Fitch,” said Dick, as the next batter left the bench.

Fitch had not touched the ball for the day. Hogan regarded the fellow as an easy mark. Otis surprised every one by smashing a hot grounder toward Marone, who made a startling stop, but juggled the ball and permitted the bases to fill. It was Merriwell’s turn to strike.

“Two to tie and three to win, partner,” said Buckhart, as Dick picked out a bat. “You’ve got to do it for us! You’ve got to save this game! Give us a bingle.”

Dick forgot his lame shoulder. He forgot everything except the necessity of getting a clean hit. After missing one of Hogan’s curves, he found the ball with a sharp, snapping swing, and lined it far into right field.

The Yale stand rose with a roar as it was seen that Hanley could not touch that long line drive. The ball struck the ground and went bounding away, away to the far extremity of the field, while man after man romped joyously over the plate. Dick had won the game by this beautiful bingle.

* * * * *

When Merriwell entered his room, followed by Jones and Buckhart, he discovered that everything was in disorder. The drawers of his desk had been pulled out and their contents emptied on the floor. This was likewise the case with his dresser.

“Hello!” he cried. “What’s this mean? Some one has been here while I was gone.”

A moment later he had reached the private drawer which he always kept locked. One glance showed him that it had been pried open and the lock broken. The contents of this drawer, however, had not been scattered upon the floor. Everything was there—everything save one thing.

The confession of Mike Lynch was gone.

It was about the time when Merriwell made this discovery that Duncan Ditson entered his own room and found Bern Wolfe waiting for him there.

“Hello!” exclaimed Dunc, in surprise. “Forgot about you in the excitement. Say, do you know what happened? Well, Merriwell went into that game and won it with a corking hit in the ninth inning. Isn’t that just his luck?”

“Don’t talk to me about luck!” snarled Wolfe. “I’m sore! I’m disgusted!”

“Eh? What’s happened? Did you try to get hold of that confession?”

“Try?” rasped Bern, producing an envelope and flinging it on the study table. “I should say I did! There it is!”

“There it is? Then what’s the matter? What ails you?”

Wolfe caught up the envelope, and drew forth the sheets of paper it contained.

“What ails me?” he hissed. “Just take a look at this! Here’s that valuable confession!”

He spread out the sheets of paper, and Ditson gazed at them in surprise, for apparently there was not a line of writing upon them.

“Confession?” muttered Duncan. “What are you talking about? There’s nothing there.”

“There was once. Look here—look close. Here, you can see the faintest tracing of a word. There, you can see part of another word. There was writing on this paper once. Why, I can even see a bit of my own signature down in this corner, but it’s gone. It’s faded. It’s no good to any one now.”

Looking intently at the paper, Ditson was able to make out the faint tracing of a few detached words upon it.

Suddenly Duncan smote his clenched right fist into his left palm.

“Well, if that wasn’t a slick trick on the part of Lynch!” he cried. “He wrote his confession with sympathetic ink.”

“With what? Sympathetic ink?”

“Yes. That’s ink that will fade and vanish entirely, a few days after it is used. I was with him when he bought it. He told me he had a girl to whom he was writing letters, and, as he feared she might not destroy his letters, he was taking care to use the kind of ink that would prevent those epistles from ever rising like ghosts to haunt and confuse him. Wolfe, we’re a couple of blamed fools!”

THE END.

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48—Frank Merriwell’s Baseball Victories
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80—Dick Merriwell’s Narrow Escape
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94—Dick Merriwell’s Mystery
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97—Dick Merriwell’s Western Mission
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104—Dick Merriwell’s Test
105—Frank Merriwell’s Trump Card
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41—Sam’s Chance
42—Striving for Fortune
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44—Slow and Sure
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48—Andy Grant’s Pluck
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55—The Young Miner
56—Charlie Codman’s Cruise
57—A Debt of Honor
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59—Ben’s Nugget
60—The Errand Boy
61—Frank and Fearless
62—Frank Hunter’s Peril
63—Adrift in the City
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65—Tom Turner’s Legacy
66—Dan, the Newsboy
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68—Lester’s Luck
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74—Mark Manning’s Mission
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76—Sink or Swim
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80—The Young Musician
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84—The Cash Boy
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87—Lost at Sea
88—From Farm to Fortune
89—Young Captain Jack
90—Joe, the Hotel Boy
91—Out for Business
92—Falling in with Fortune
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94—Randy of the River
95—Jerry, the Backwoods Boy
96—Ben Logan’s Triumph
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98—The Last Cruise of _The Spitfire_
99—Reuben Stone’s Discovery
100—True to Himself
101—Richard Dare’s Venture
102—Oliver Bright’s Search
103—To Alaska for Gold
104—The Young Auctioneer
105—Bound to Be an Electrician
106—Shorthand Tom
107—Fighting for His Own
108—Joe, the Surveyor
109—Larry, the Wanderer
110—The Young Ranchman
111—The Young Lumberman
112—The Young Explorers
113—Boys of the Wilderness
114—Boys of the Great Northwest
115—Boys of the Gold Field
116—For His Country
117—Comrades in Peril
118—The Young Pearl Hunters
119—The Young Bandmaster
120—Boys of the Fort
121—On Fortune’s Trail
122—Lost in the Land of Ice
123—Bob, the Photographer

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124—Among the Missing
125—His Own Helper
126—Honest Kit Dunstable
127—Every Inch a Boy
128—The Young Pilot
129—Always in Luck
130—Rich and Humble
131—In School and Out
132—Watch and Wait
133—Work and Win
134—Hope and Have
135—Haste and Waste
136—Royal Tarr’s Pluck
137—The Prisoners of the Cave
138—Louis Chiswick’s Mission
139—The Professor’s Son
140—The Young Hermit
141—The Cruise of _The Dandy_
142—Building Himself Up
143—Lyon Hart’s Heroism
144—Three Young Silver Kings
145—Making a Man of Himself
146—Striving for His Own
147—Through by Daylight
148—Lightning Express
149—On Time
150—Switch Off
151—Brake Up
152—Bear and Forbear
153—The “Starry Flag”
154—Breaking Away
155—Seek and Find
156—Freaks of Fortune
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158—Down the River
159—The Boat Club
160—All Aboard
161—Now or Never
162—Try Again

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

1. Listing, moved the first four pages book listings to the end of the novel and before the listings at the end. 2. 70, supplied “fight” as unknown 5 letter word in “By this time the girl’s _____ had been answered.” 3. Table of Contents added by transcriber. 4. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 5. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed. 6. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.

End of Project Gutenberg's Dick Merriwell's Backers, by Burt L. Standish