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Bentley and the girls passed, cadet friends lifted their caps to the ladies with Prescott and Anstey, the salutes being punctiliously returned. Bert Dodge was in a rage. He could not get so much as the courtesy of a bow from these girls whom he had known for years. He was being cut dead and he knew it, and the humiliation of the thing was more than he could well bear.
"Now, gentlemen," began Anstey, in his soft voice of ordinary conversation, "I don't believe we have any need of a presiding officer in this little meeting. With your permission, I will state why I have asked you to come here. "For months, now, we have had a member of this class in Coventry.
"You are attached to the medical school at St. Margaret's Hospital, I believe, Dr. Thorndyke?" said Anstey. "Yes. I am the lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology." "Have you had much experience of medico-legal inquiries?" "A great deal. I am engaged exclusively in medico-legal work." "You heard the evidence relating to the two drops of blood found in the safe?" "I did."
"Your fortune has a strange effect upon you," he said, kindly. "I cannot believe it!" I cried, clasping his hand. "I cannot realize it! I have been working so hard so hard for one single sovereign and now, you say, I am rich!" "Now, most certainly," he replied, "you are Sir Edgar Trevelyan, master of Crown Anstey and a rent roll of ten thousand a year."
"I can't get a line on my chronometer without your longitude." Hall laughingly refused. "You're too good a navigator, Mr. Anstey, not to fetch New Guinea or some other high land." "And you're too good a navigator, Mr. Hall," Grief replied, "not to know that I can fetch your island any time by running down its latitude."
"Am I entitled to a reason for that, Anstey?" "Mister Anstey, if you please, now and always hereafter." "Certainly, Mr. Anstey. May I ask your reason for desiring a new roommate?" "I think I need not give my reason, Mr. Dodge," and Anstey turned his back. Bert Dodge got out of the room somehow and made his way back to the hospital ward through the back door.
"Say, you fellows," greeted Anstey, breaking into their room after the chums had returned to barracks, "you two had better go over today, and the men who are to drag the spooniest femmes tonight are all plotting to write you down on the dance cards of their femmes." "That's the best reason in the world for keeping away from Cullum, then," laughed Dick. "But I mean it seriously," protested Anstey.
"You're standing him off a heap better than I thought you could," whispered Anstey, as he and Greg sponged the plebe fighter off quickly and then began to knead his muscles. While this was still going on the referee again summoned the fighters forward. The second round started.
After a while it was necessary for Dick and Greg to take their friends back to the hotel, for the cadets must be on hand punctually for supper formation. "Mr. Anstey and I will call for you at 7:30, if we may," said Dick. "We shall be ready," Laura promised. "And that we may not keep you waiting, we'll be down on the veranda." And waiting they were. Dick and Anstey found Mrs.
Anstey came to the rescue. "Why, Lady Martin, I had no idea you were home again. You have come to welcome Mrs. Rose, I suppose. My dear" to Toni "Lady Martin is your nearest neighbour really near, I mean; only a mile away." "Less by the fields." Lady Martin spoke magisterially. "And this fine weather tempted us to walk, although both the cars were standing idle in the garage."
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