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The secession element in the College, however, finding more congenial company among the cadets, opened up the way for quite intimate and friendly relations between the two institutions. In January, 1861, the corps of cadets had been ordered by Governor Wise to be present, as a military guard, at the execution of John Brown at Harper's Ferry.
As the cadets approached the thick tangle of vines, the calls and rustling noises from the many crawling things hidden in the forbidding thicket slowly died down. They walked along the edge of the tangle of jungle creepers until they found an opening and stepped through.
That evening the class was to meet, for the last time as a whole, at one of the theaters in New York. And the late cadets would sit together, solidly, as a class. Friends of graduates who wished would attend the theater, though in seats away from the class. Dick and Greg's relatives and friends were all to attend. More, they were to stop at the same hotel.
A little cheer of excitement went up from the cadets aboard the “Farnum” as that craft shot ahead over the waters. The cadets were catching the thrill of what was virtually a race. At the same time, though, these midshipmen could not help feeling a good deal of interest in the success of the “Pollard,” which was manned wholly by representatives of the Navy.
Bunker was still with this aggregation, an eleven that marched fifty yards for a touchdown in fifteen plays against the midshipmen. The Army was among the early Eastern teams to test Eastern football methods against those of the West, the Cadets defeating a team from the University of Chicago on the plains.
"Billy, you scoot down the road to the bend and watch the main highway. If anyone turns off into our road, you let me know right away!" "Yes, sir," replied Billy and dashed down the road. Jeff followed Jane and Logan into the house, and a few moments later, after exchanging enthusiastic greetings, he and the cadets waited hungrily for Jane to prepare breakfast.
We must do everything in our power to remove the slightest taint from your name, or your position with your brother cadets will never be quite the same again." "I know that full well, sir," Cadet Prescott replied with feeling.
"I saw some more of your cadets in town to-night," said the bookseller, while wrapping up the book. "Yes, I believe half a dozen or more came down," returned Powell. "Having a special celebration to-night?" "Not that I am aware of." "Why do you ask?" put in Dick, who knew the bookseller well.
"Only think! she writes me a letter of four whole pages, and expects that I should read it, and, what is more, answer it also; I, who have to go to parade, then dine, then attend the rehearsal of an opera, and the ballet which the cadets will dance at. I will tell her plainly that I have not time, and, if she is vexed, I will quarrel with her till next winter."
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