"Perhaps he lies," put in Jorkins. "Perhaps he does know."
"He wouldn't take the trouble to lie about it if he knew, and he told me straight that he didn't know."
"Think his conscience would keep him from lying?" asked Fancy.
"Conscience! If Bob Hutchinson has one, nobody ever accused him of it. But if Locke was his find he'd be taking the credit, you bet.
"Don't nobody think for a minute that I'm goin' to sit round and twiddle my thumbs while Kingsbridge is winnin' games off us. I ain't built that way. We'll down 'em somehow or other, mark that."
"We ought to have a pitcher as good as Locke, at any cost," was the opinion of Jorkins.
"At any cost," agreed Butler. "Why don't we have him?"
"Pitchers of that caliber ain't to be picked off ev'ry bush this late in the season," said Riley. "There's other ways of downin' Kingsbridge."
