CHAPTER V
LAURIE TO THE RESCUE
Laurie's rush to get back to school did not
prevent him from pausing when, having
turned the corner into Summit Street and proceeded
half-way along the block, he caught sight
of Bob Starling in the back garden of the Coventry
place. The Coventry place, which consisted
of a big square house set at the Walnut Street end
of a broad and deep plot of land facing the school
property, had been rented by Bob's father, who
was the engineer in charge of the big new railroad
bridge in course of construction near Orstead.
Bob was entered at Hillman's School as a
day-student. He was sixteen years old, a slim
but well built chap with a very attractive countenance.
Bob's mission in life, as he believed,
was to play a great deal of tennis and play it better
than any one else. In that mission he very
nearly succeeded. It was tennis that was ac-
