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It must be confessed that Dick was exceedingly anxious when the time for balloting arrived. Would he succeed or fail? Just before dinner Captain Putnam brought out a square box into which ballots might be cast. "The cadets will stand up in a row to be counted," he said. "Major Conners, will you will kindly count your command."
"I understand," said Burgess more at a loss than a conversation had ever found him, "And what may I ask, is your part of the play?" "Mamie Conners is too nervous," the lady President explained "to come right out and act. She's 'A flourish of trumpets within an' a voice without an' a lady of the court an' a soldier an' a choir boy at the funeral."
He expected Captain Putnam back by noon and wished to be prepared to make a proper report to the head of the school on his arrival. He had just seated himself at the desk in the office when there came a knock on the door. "Come in!" he said shortly, thinking it might be a servant. The newcomer was Bart Conners. "Well, Conners, what is it?" demanded the head teacher.
"Indeed, I shall be glad to see him. How interesting." He was taken to the office of the district attorney, where an assistant and a sergeant of police met him. Sergeant Conners, who had met Professor Brierly on previous matters, said to the scientist. "We should 'a' had this bird sooner, but it seems he was sleepin' off a drunk somewhere and no one knew where he was.
At the gate the little mare turned her head toward town and started away in the easy swinging lope for which she was famous. From a cornfield Jerome Conners, the overseer, watched horse and rider for a while, and then his lips were lifted over his protruding teeth in one of his ghastly, infrequent smiles. Chad Buford was out of his way at last.
"I beg to withdraw my name from the list of candidates," cried Paul Singleton. "All who voted for me will kindly vote for Bart Conners, who is my choice." "We must beat Ritter and Baxter!" said Andy, in a low voice. "That's right!" cried another of the cadets. "But how?" "Let us try to make up a slate," proposed Jack, who was something of a politician.
"Have you any idea who took the money, Dan?" asked Bart Conners. "No. I was dead tired and slept like a dog. But I know I had the eleven dollars when I went to bed, and now it's gone." "So is my diamond stickpin," and the captain of Company B gave the particulars. "Humph!" muttered the bully. "I heard of those other robberies, but I didn't think I'd get touched as quick as this.
Having shown then their dormitory he conducted them through the building and exhibited the various class- and drill-rooms, and then ended up by introducing them to several other pupils, including Bart Conners, the major for the term, and Harry Blossom and Dave Kearney, the two captains. "Welcome to Putnam Hall!" cried Major Bart Conners, a tall youth of nearly seventeen.
"Harry Blossom and Dave Kearney might withdraw in favor of Bart Conners if the fellows promised to support them for the two captaincies." "Let us see if it can be done," returned Pepper, quickly. "Hustle now, for we've got to vote again in fifteen minutes." They hurried around and interviewed Blossom and Kearney, and about twenty other cadets.
Jack, Andy, Hogan, and Bart Conners were in their usual places. "And I want you, too, Pepper," said Dale. "Oh, I can go on the sub-bench," was the answer, for Pepper did not care very much for football. "Give Fred Century and Bert Field a chance." "I know what Pepper wants," said Andy. "He wants us to play, while he sits in the grandstand, having a good time with the girls."
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