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On reporting to the special officer in charge, the two chums found that they had been given quarters together. Moreover, their room was one of the best assigned to second classman, and looked out over the plain and parade ground. "We ought to be jolly happy in here this year, old ramrod," predicted Greg. "Especially as we haven't any fellow like Dodge in the class."
Not less often does it happen that the turnback wonders at the comparative lack of esteem shown him. The reason, however, is very likely to be found in the fact that the turnback considers himself a mile or so above the new class members with whom circumstances have compelled him to cast his lot. It was so in this instance. Haynes felt that he was, properly, a first classman.
"Yes," replied Dave incisively. "Now, the question is, what can be done about it?" "I wish you had asked me an easier one," sighed the first classman. "You're mighty well liked, all through the Academy, Dalzell, and every one of us will hate to see you go." "But what can be done to ward off that fate?" insisted Darrin as impatiently as a third classman might speak to a venerable first classman.
Douglass, without looking at his appealing fellow classman, or opening his lips to answer, stepped around Prescott. But Dick caught his unwilling comrade firmly by the arm. "Douglass," he whispered, "in the name of justice, listen to me just an instant -a swift instant, too! I think the chance has come to clear me of the load of dislike and contempt with which I am regarded here.
"Confound it, can a yearling see just as well when he's asleep as when he's awake?" He halted before Furlong's tent, rapping on the pole. "Mr. Briggs, sir." "Come in, Mr. Briggs." The plebe stepped into the tent, drawing himself up and standing at attention. For some seconds none of the yearlings spoke. In fact, only Dick looked at the fourth classman. "Mr.
The gates of hope are closed before his face. He marches to the ordeal, full of a dull misery. Whether he is fourth classman or first, he knows that hope has fled; that he will go below the saving 2.5 mark and be dropped from the rolls.
"Nothing like it," Dick protested, growing redder still. "I was ashamed over having let the footpad get away." "What? And he twice your size?" gasped Thompson. "Fellows, what do you think of the modest cheek of this freshie! Ashamed because he couldn't bag a full-sized thug!" "That kid's the mustard!" broke in another first classman, approvingly. "That's what he is!" came from others.
"Now, then, Danny boy, we " First Classman Dave Darrin, midshipman at the United States Naval Academy, did not finish what he was about to say. While speaking he had closed the door behind him and had stepped into the quarters occupied jointly by himself and by Midshipman Daniel Dalzell, also of the first or upper class. "Danny boy isn't here.
"You don't know how to talk to gentlemen," retorted Fred, harshly. "Be silent, both of you," ordered Thompson, sternly. "You can do your talking in another way. "Can't begin too soon for me," uttered Ripley. "One minute rounds for you, gentlemen," continued Thompson, then turned to another upper classman, requesting him to hold the watch. "Now are you ready?" Ripley grunted, Dick nodded.
Some moments before the gangplank was run aboard from the wharf everyone of the more than dozen cadets had already leaped ashore. "Whoop!" yelled Greg, tossing his hat in the air. "Mr. Holmes!" growled Cadet Dennison with mock severity. "Report yourself for unmilitary enthusiasm!" "Yes, sir," responded Greg meekly, saluting: his fellow classman. "Fall in!" yelled Dennison.
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