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Dick turned back, more slowly, a thoughtful frown gathering on his fine face, while the yearling sentry was muttering to himself: "Great Caesar, but Prescott surely has put both feet in it. He reports a fellow classman for a little thing like a late smoke, and the man reported will be doomed to go into close arrest! Glad I'm not Prescott!"
But it was never until after he had said the same thing to the man's face." "This isn't fair," fussed Dennison, "to hold me back after I've been insulted." By this time, half a dozen more cadets had stopped. Three of the newest comers were yearlings, one was a second classman and two were first classmen. "Will you let me act as one of your friends, old ramrod?" asked Cadet Furlong.
Sioux, Shoshone and Cheyenne, they would turn to "Old John" in their councils, their dealings, their treaties, their perplexities, for when he said a thing was right and square their doubts were gone, and there at the Point the now well-to-do old trader met men who had known him in by-gone days at Laramie and Omaha, and there his pretty schoolgirl daughter met her bosom friend's big brother Marshall, a first classman in all his glory, dancing with damsels in society, while she was but a maiden shy in short dresses.
And what man of his class did he whip, the second time he tried!" "It wasn't a man of his own class. It was Mr. Treadwell, of the first class," rejoined Lieutenant Willow. "What?" almost exploded the officer in charge. "Did you say that Mr. Darrin fought with Mr. Treadwell, that husky top classman, and, losing the decision on the count, insisted on fighting again the same evening?
Five times Treadwell swung at his smaller opponent, but each time Dave was somewhere else. Despite his greater size, Treadwell was himself nimble and an adept at footwork. Finding it hard, however, to get about as quickly as his smaller opponent, the first classman soon went in for close, in-body fighting, following Dave, half-cornering him, and forcing him to stand and take it.
There was not a detail which he could not have arranged very skillfully. At the Goats Club I was lucky to discover a member whom I knew well enough to take into my confidence by stating my errand. He was one of the Star's former special writers and an older classman of the college which had graduated Kennedy and myself. "Merle Shirley is not a member here," he said.
"That was a dirty trick you played me last night, Mr. Darrin!" cried the first classman angrily. "What?" gasped Dave, astonished, for this was not in line with the usual conversation of midshipmen. "You know well enough what I mean," cried Treadwell angrily. "You spiked my only chance to dance with Miss Meade." "You're wrong there," retorted Dave coldly and truthfully "I didn't."
Finally, you can get sassy with all upper classman whenever any of you six want to -all you'll have to do, further, will be to fight." Another round of cheers confirmed Thompson's declaration. "Now, fellows, get a move on!" bawled Sam Edgeworth, captain of the football eleven. "We've barely time to get to the field and meet Coach Morton punctually."
"They were out for trouble, and they got it," declared one third classman. "The rest of us let up on all hazing before Christmas." Though it was against regulations to visit them confined to their quarters, Farley took the chance and got a few words with Dave. "Darry, don't let anyone trim you for what you didn't do," begged Midshipman Farley.
"But you " "Silence, sir, and attend to your duty!" Then, raising his voice to one of general command, Prescott called: "Construct the bridge!" Jordan fell back, with a surly face and a muttered imprecation, to take command of the squad of yearlings, or third classman who must serve in carrying the heavy balks.
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