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Long ago the same grim place had taught me something else about this many-sided passion between men and women, and one day it rose suddenly up in my mind: I must have been about fifteen when my little friend Eleanore Dillon came back. Soon she and Sue were intimate chums, they went to school together. My mother invited her up to the mountains, and there I was with her a good deal.
French retired about midnight, as calmly as if he were in his own rooms, leaving the two Filipinos on guard in the cabin. Once Frank arose and tried to slip out, his idea being to reach the shore and look for his chums, but the brown men lifted their guns automatically as he looked out on them.
"Then your sister will not be deprived of your company just yet," she managed to say, and she seemed to be paying particular attention to the sparking lever. "No," he replied. "Hazel and I are great friends chums, you might say. In fact, I've never had a boy friend with whom I was able to get along so well as I can with my sister." "That's very nice. It's what Jack says about me.
"I want to be honest, Mister Geary," he exclaimed, drawing the backs of his fingers across his lips; "I want to be honest; I'm down and I don't mean no offence. Charlie, you and I were old chums once at Harvard. My God! to think I was a Harvard man once! Oh, I'm a goner now and I ain't got a friend. When I was in the paint-shop they paid me well.
The encounters that Jack and his chums had with Reff Ritter and his cronies were numerous, and more than once Ritter did his best to get the young major into serious trouble. Once he drugged Jack with some French headache powders, and when he was exposed Captain Putnam would have expelled him had not Jack very generously asked that he be given another chance.
He would like to be allowed to pay his respects to the Doctor and Mrs Patrick, and to his boy's master, and would very much like to witness the exploits of those two redoubtable chums Telson and Parson; but he is not his own master, and has to do what he is told. Young Cusack is shouting every minute to acquaintances in the crowd that he has got his father here.
"Curious, isn't it?" observed Belle, "that the poorer the people seem, the more dogs they keep." "What were we talking of?" "Perhaps misery loves company," quoted Bess. "Jack?" suggested her sister. "No, Walter," corrected the other, and they laughed. "What's the joke?" asked Cora, who had slowed up her car to await the on-coming of her chums. "Did you try to see how near you could miss a dog?"
Then the two young people seated themselves and spent a delightful hour in talking over all that had befallen them both since they had last met. Belle, too, through Laura Bentley, had some much later news of the old chums, Dick and Greg, now cadets at West Point. This news, however, will be found in full in "DICK PRESCOTT'S SECOND YEAR AT WEST POINT." "What are your plans for this afternoon?"
At first the two chums bound for Tillbury were only excited and pleased by the novel situation. The porter arranged their seats for them and Bess proudly produced the box of lunch she had bought at Freeling, and of which they had eaten very little. "Tell me how smart I am, Nan Sherwood!" she cried. "Wish we had a cup of coffee apiece."
"Well, he'd better go a bit slow, I'm thinking." The boys crowded around Jack and John, anxious to know if they were hurt. All were loud in their indignation when they learned what had happened. "Let's pay that snob back!" suggested Dick Balmore. "Make him sleep with you one night," suggested Fred, for Dick was so tall and thin that he had been christened "Bony" by his chums.
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