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"I have been a yearling only a few days." "But is a plebe forbidden to stroll here?" "If a plebe did have the brass to try it," replied Anstey slowly, "I reckon he would have to fight the whole yearling class in turn." Laura caught some of the conversation, and turned to Dick. "Haven't plebes any rights or privileges?" she asked. "Oh, yes, indeed," replied Prescott gravely.

"Though I wish it were Bruce Anstey, or any of the pick of my young men to lie with me in the great dark and to crumble with me to the dust that is the real death." She gazed at Saxon with eyes heated by alcohol and at the same time cool with the coolness of content. "In the old days the great of earth were buried with their live slaves with them. I but take my flimsies, my dear."

"It wouldn't interest you, Mr. Anstey. Its foundation lies in by-gone days back in Gridley," floundered Dodge. "At any rate, your fire has destroyed the ah joke. Will you assure me, Mr. Dodge, that the joke was only a good-natured one?" asked Dick Prescott, eyeing Dodge sternly. "I assure you of that on my honor as a cadet and a gentleman," said Dodge stiffly. "Very well then. And now good-night."

Then Corporal Hasbrouck's bellowing voice could be heard: "Officer of the day, post number three!" Some one could be heard running down the street. A few moments passed, during which Dick, Greg and Anstey sat up on their mattresses listening eagerly. Then came the officer of the day running back.

By all of which it may be perceived that my disease had reached a very advanced stage, and that I was unequal to those tactics of concealment that are commonly attributed to the ostrich. A sharp rap of the knocker announced the arrival of the disturber of my peace, and when I opened the door Anstey walked in with the air of a man to whom an hour more or less is of no consequence whatever.

"Well, one man, who probably will never be thought of highly again," replied Anstey, "spoke slightingly of a girl at the hop last night. The cadet who heard him didn't even know the girl, but he called the cadet a 'dog' for speaking that way of a woman." "What happened?" inquired Laura. "The man who was called a 'dog' was, according to our code, compelled to call his insulter out."

"It is to be war between us, Sir Edgar war to the knife!" "There is no need for war," I said, wearily. "Let us forget all about it. There will be no need for you to do anything romantic, Coralie. Stay on at Crown Anstey, and make yourself happy with Clare." "Yes," she replied, with that strange smile, "I shall remain at Crown Anstey I have no thought of going away."

Dodge charges that you are abusing your power. Maitland and I beg to differ with him. Mr. Anstey, you have done the only thing that can be done in such a case of infamy and dishonor. Mr. Dodge will, of course, send in his resignation tomorrow; it will be much easier for him than facing disgrace of a more public kind through a published verdict of a general court-martial. As soon as Mr.

Then, suddenly, full speed ahead was rung on the engine-room bell, and the craft went on under greatly increased headway. "Well, gentlemen," murmured Anstey, moving around and walking slowly forward, "the United States Military Academy is the grandest alma mater that a fellow could possibly have.

The year 1902 saw an advance in the Parliamentary agitation of the reform, when the Hon. The measure had been excellently prepared by Mr. J. H. Vaughan, LL.B., with the assistance of the members of the executive of the Effective Voting League, among whom were Messrs. Crawford Vaughan and E. A. Anstey.