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In another moment they had stepped inside and their arrival awakened Cadet Brayton. "Plebes' quarters next floor up, brothers," called Brayton in drowsy good nature. "I'm sorry to say, Brayton, we're on the right floor, and in the right room," responded Dunstan. "But this visit won't bother you!" The noise of voices awoke Bert Dodge with start.
The Army players and substitutes got into their togs, then waited. "All ready?" called Brayton at last. "Then fall in and out on to the field in double time!" Another wild outburst of cheering was let loose when the Army eleven trotted in into view. The Military Academy Band began playing. An instant later the Naval Academy Band fell in, playing the same air by ear.
With that, Lieutenant Carney ran over to the edge of the gridiron, leaving another officer, of the coaching force, to officiate as referee. The ball was placed in play. At the kick-off the ball came to Greg, who passed it to Dick. The interference formed, backed by Brayton. "Put it around their right end!" growled Brayton, the word passing swiftly to Prescott.
"Don't believe ye more 'n half believed me." Three more horsemen rode up to the gate and came into the light. Every man was armed, and at Isom's puzzled look, Steve caught the lad by the arm and led him around the chimney-corner. He was in high spirits. "'Pears like ole times, Isom. I'm a-goin' fer thet cussed ole Steve Brayton this very night. He's behind Crump.
"I wouldn't put anything mean beyond Dodge," replied Furlong. "Now, I believe I can take you to Dodge's room. Both he and Brayton are absent at the hop. Brayton has always been a decent fellow, I don't believe he admires Dodge any too much, but he has to put up with his roommate.
And you've no business here, anyway." "I'm afraid you've missed the point, suh?" replied Anstey with bored patience. "That is exactly why we're here, suh -because we have business here." Brayton had slipped into his bathrobe and was now crossing the room with blankets on one arm. "Chase 'em out, Bray; don't hang any blankets for them to run a light behind," begged Dodge.
Certain men were looking for each other, and it was a question of "draw-in' quick 'n' shootin' quick" when the two met by accident, or of getting the advantage "from the bresh." In time Steve Marcum had come face to face with old Steve Brayton in Hazlan, and the two Steves, as they were known, drew promptly.
A yell broke on the night Crump's cry again and the boy swayed across the rock, and falling at the brink, dropped with a limp struggle out of sight. THE news of Isom's fate reached the miller by way of Hazlan before the next noon. Several men in the Brayton cabin had recognized the boy in the moonlight. At daybreak they found bloodstains on the ledge and on a narrow shelf a few feet farther down.
In the afternoon came a lot more of drilling of awkward squads by other cadet corporals. Greg soon found, under the tender mercies of another corporal, why Brayton was considered "easy." These cadet corporals are all members of the yearling class, the class directly above the plebes. As corporals these members of the yearling class get their first direct experience in military command.
Their backs ached from the long-continued drilling in what was yet, to them, the rigor of near-military carriage. Both chums toiled up the stairs to their bare room. "Oh, you brute!" muttered Greg, standing in the middle of the room and shaking his fist in the direction of the area. "Meaning whom?" queried Prescott, with a wan smile. "Whom could I mean but Brayton?" almost hissed young Holmes.
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