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At last Greg Holmes came in. "Still engaged, Holmesy?" asked Dick, looking up with a quizzical smile. "Surest thing on the post!" returned Greg, with a radiant smile. He had the look of being a young man very much in love and utterly happy over his good fortune. "Going to run a light?" asked Holmes, gaping, as he swiftly disrobed.
On the evening of this day Anstey dropped in to see Dick and Greg in their room. "Hullo, old ramrod, and you, Holmesy! Are you pondering on the fact that you'll be an exalted yearling to-morrow?" "I don't believe the yearling himself feels exalted it's only the plebe that puts him on a high seat. The yearling probably looks with longing to the next and the next and the next," laughed Greg.
"If I were in Holmesy's place, I wouldn't come in," rejoined the Virginian. "I'd stay out, just as Holmesy is doing." "But you were one of Prescott's thick friends, too." "I'm not his roommate, or his schoolboy chum, suh. Holmesy is. "It's hard to lose either of them," sighed Douglass, "and fierce to lose both of them.
"I'd hate to go in without Greg," replied Dick. "He and I generally work together in anything we attempt." "That was just the kick Holmesy made when you -when things were different," corrected the captain of the Army nine hastily. "Well, you see, 'Durry, we were always chums back in the good old High School days.
"Holmesy, you know so much more about things than I do," pleaded Griffin sweetly, "just be good to Dell for an hour, won't you? You're one of the best-informed men here. Now, mind you, Dell! No fun at Mr. Holmes's expense. Look out for her, Holmesy!" With that Griffin "slid away" as gracefully and neatly as though he hadn't been planning to do it all along.
Now, the talk was all on how Prescott and Holmes had saved the game to the Army. Even Maitland, without a trace of jealousy, conceded them most of the credit. "What has cherubic, spoonoid Holmesy got up his sleeve for 8.15?" asked Dunstan in an undertone of Anstey. "I reckon, suh, you'll have to apply for particulars to the Information and Security Service, suh," replied the Virginian.
"And we could do even that, if we had Prescott and Holmesy here," thought Douglass, with sinking heart to himself. He was careful not to repeat that sentiment audibly. "Holmesy ought to be here to-day, and working," growled one of the Army subs. "He's a sneak, just to desert on Mr. Prescott's account." "None of that!" called Doug sharply.
"And you haven't Holmes, either?" sighed Dave. "That isn't any one's fault but Holmesy's," frowned Cadet Fields. "We wanted Holmesy to play, and we gave him every chance, but " "But he wouldn't," finished Dave. "No more would I play on the Navy team if the fellows had done anything unjust to Dalzell."
"I don't feel any uneasiness about getting through the final exams. now. We're as good as second lieutenants already, Holmesy!" While thus chatting, however, the two chums were keeping pace with their comrades of the nine. The nine from Annapolis moved in a compact group a little ahead down the road.
"Holmesy," said Ross in the same breath. So Greg Holmes was chosen captain, to command the whites. "Give us the full six minutes, Greg, won't you?" Dick called, as he and his two fellow "Injuns" prepared to enter the deep woods. "Of course I will," Greg nodded. "You don't think I'd cheat, do you?" Those of the boys who were proud owners of watches hurriedly consulted their timepieces.
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