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But if they won't, then it's for the best interests of the service that I get out, Greg." "Well, talk yourself blind, if it will give you any relief. But post this information up on your inside bulletin board: When you quit the service, old ramrod, it will be 'good-bye' for little Holmesy!" Breakfast, the next morning, was a repetition of what had happened the night before.
We always played together, then, in any game, and either of us would feel lonesome now without the other." "Oh, of course," nodded Durville. "Well, I'll see Holmesy and try to round him up, if you say so." "I think I can get him to come around," smiled Dick. "But you may be tremendously disappointed in both of us." "Can you play ball as well as Holmesy?" "Perhaps; nearly, I guess."
I want you to meet both the young ladies, and dance at least a couple of numbers with each." "I reckon I'd go through fire or water for you, or Holmesy," murmured the Virginian quietly. "Oh, it isn't going to be anything like such an ordeal as that," laughed Dick happily. "Just wait until you've seen the young ladies. That's all!" "As they " Anstey paused.
"See here, old ramrod, you know all about that Annapolis battery," broke in Hackett, of the nine. "What about them as ball players? I understand you went to school with Darrin and Dalzell. Do that pair play ball the way they do football?" "Yes," nodded Dick. "If anything, they play baseball better." "But you and Holmesy put them out at football.
"I'm going to duck the team and quit playing," protested Dick, "if Holmesy and I are to be twitted about being wonders." "But, honestly, Prescott" began Brayton, "you two are " "Average good Army men, I hope," interposed Dick. "Nothing more, I hope. At least. I speak for myself. If Holmesy wants to star " "I'll call you out, ramrod, if you carry the joke too far!" warned Greg.
"Yes," sighed the captain of the Army nine; "and Holmesy tells me that he's a tyro to Mr. Prescott." "Then Mr. Prescott must be a wonder on the diamond," grunted the other cadet. "I hear that he is," assented Durville. "By the way, you remember Darrin and Dalzell, who helped the Navy team to wipe the field up with us last year?" "I reckon I do."
I'm all dressed now, and I'll go straight to your house and get some clothes for you, so you can come out of these woods and walk home. I'll do it for half a dollar." "Thank you, Holmesy, I'll do it," Martin eagerly promised. "And I'll thank you, too, from the bottom of my " "You can keep the thanks," proposed Greg gravely. "But you can hand over the half dollar."
Then he went on, after considering: "As they come from home, old ramrod, I should think you and Holmesy would want them all to yourselves." "But don't you understand, you uncivilized being," demanded Dick, chuckling, "that we can't dance all the numbers with the girls? It would be a slight on the girls if only two men wanted to dance with them.
"Good enough for me, I suppose," grimaced Greg, seating himself once more when he had cleaned his mouth fairly well. Dave, who had turned over to grin at Greg, soon rolled back to his old posture on the grass. Greg, however, was not disposed to let the matter pass as easily as the others imagined. Shortly Holmesy jumped astride of Dave and rolled that youth over on to his back.
Cadet Douglass was presently elected class president. Then further action was taken with regard to Cadet Richard Prescott. Without further debate a motion was carried that Prescott be sent to Coventry for good and all. The class meeting adjourned, and upon Greg Holmes, who was informed by Anstey, fell the task of carrying the decision to Dick. "I expected it, Holmesy," was Dick's quiet reply.
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