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"It's a shame, too," muttered Dick in an undertone. "We won't be any more than on the blanket before the summons from the O.C. will arrive." "Here it comes, now," whispered Greg, nudging his bunkie. But it was Anstey, their tentmate, hastening to be undressed in time against taps. "What was the row?" asked the Virginian. "Cannon crackers over at Battle Monument," replied Dick.
With a rather heavy heart, though outwardly betraying no sign, Prescott walked along until he reached Jordan's tent, where he delivered the order from the O.C. "Did you hear that, old man?" growled Jordan to his tentmate, after the cadet captain had gone. "Pretty rough!" returned the tentmate sleepily. Rough?
"I like that word 'drag' better than 'escort'," laughed Belle. "But Mr. Anstey, our tentmate, is to escort you tonight," Greg made haste to explain. "That is the first I have heard of it," replied Belle, with an odd smile. "Does Mr. Anstey know about it, either?" "Don't make fun of me," begged Holmes quickly. "Miss Meade, there are many customs here that are strange to outsiders.
To impose the rule of silence on the tentmate or roommate of the rebuked one would be to punish an innocent man along with the guilty one. Rarely, after all, does the corps err in its judgment when Coventry or the silence is meted out. None the less, in Dick's case a grave mistake had been made. Time slipped by, and darkness came on, but Greg had not returned.
"After this I vote that we tie Bandy-legs up, head and heels, with the rope we brought along," ventured the aggrieved Steve, pulling up the sleeve of his pajamas to see what the damage might really be. "If he's going to dream about cats going mad, and bust our nice sleep all to flinders in this way, why give him that small tent to himself. Blessed if I want him for a tentmate again."
"He's going to investigate. And I'm afraid his hot head will get him into some sort of trouble, too." The imposition of the silence did not affect Greg in his relations with his tentmate. When a cadet is sent to Coventry, or has the silence "put" on him, his tentmate or roommate may still talk unreservedly with him without fear of incurring class disfavor.
A score of young fellows, all as grimy as Ridge, and all wearing the same uniform, watched this performance curiously, and now the latter began to present them. "This is First Sergeant Higgins, mother, of our troop, and Mr. Gridley, and Mr. Pine of North Dakota. Dulce, allow me to introduce my tentmate, Mr. Van Kyp."
Sickened at the sight, Pierce Phillips witnessed the final chapter of this tragedy into which the winds of chance had blown him. For one instant only did his eyes meet those of his former tentmate, but during that brief glance the latter made plain his undying hatred.
Sahwah and Agony and Hinpoha heard themselves called to go to Gitchee-Gummee; Gladys and Migwan were put with Bengal Virden, the Elephant's Child from India, into a tent called Ponemah; while Katherine and Oh-Pshaw were assigned, without any tentmate, to "Bedlam."
Dick was not likely to hear of the move unless summoned to present his own defense in the face of class charges. Nor would Greg be approached on the subject. The accused man's roommate or tentmate is always left out of the discussion. Taps sounded; almost immediately the lights in the tents went out. Stillness settled over the encampment.
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