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When Sergeant Norris sharply reprimanded Private Van Kyp for losing his hat, Rollo answered that he considered himself perfectly excusable for so doing, since in a breeze strong enough to blow the buttons off a sergeant's blouse a hat stood no show to remain on its owner's head, whereupon the other abruptly changed the subject. In the mean time Mrs.

Spence Cuthbert also shyly handed him a box of choice candies, which she had carried all this time; but Dulce, seeing her brother thus well provided, gave her box to Rollo Van Kyp a proceeding that filled the young millionaire with delight, and caused him to be furiously envied by every other man in the car.

"I should have felt just as they did if I had been left in camp," said Ridge, who was following this story with eager interest. "Me too," replied Rollo Van Kyp, to whom the remark was addressed.

Mark Gridley." "Not Gridley, the famous quarter-back!" exclaimed Ridge, holding out his hand. "That's him," replied Van Kyp. "And aren't you Norris, the gentleman rider?" asked Gridley. "I have ridden," acknowledged Ridge. "So has this my other friend and fellow-soldier," cried Van Kyp. "Norris, I want you to know Mr.

In fact, I am in despair, and know not what is best to be done." "I know!" exclaimed Rollo Van Kyp, as Dulce, with tear-filled eyes, finished reading this pitiful note. "He must be brought back on the Nun. Mr. Norris, she leaves New York to-morrow with a fresh lot of nurses for Santiago, and if you will only take the run down on her you can bring the dear old chap back in comfort." Mr.

His shirt and trousers were in rags. "It's a beastly shame we weren't allowed to bring them," he continued, "for this fighting on foot in the tropics is disgustingly hot work. Now if I were in Teddy's place " "Private Van Kyp," interrupted Sergeant Norris, sternly, "instead of criticising your superiors you had better go and wash your face, for your personal appearance is a disgrace to the troop.

"If we only had our horses we could catch every one of those chaps," said Rollo Van Kyp, as he sat in a window of the ruined building just captured by the Riders, happily swinging his legs and fanning himself with his hat. The young millionaire's face was black with powder, covered with blood from the scratching of thorns, and streaked with trickling perspiration.

"I'd rather swim ashore than go with that man!" he exclaimed to Rollo Van Kyp, who, full of sympathy, and genuinely distressed at the prospect of their separation, had gone below with him. Ridge had told his chum all about Dodley, whom they had discovered lounging on a breezy veranda of the great Tampa Bay hotel a few days before, so that now the latter fully comprehended his feelings.