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"He is not my cousin," replied Atterbury with strange sternness. "And, since the fellow is here in disguise, it ought to be our business to ask him some questions. Come on, fellows!" Atterbury strode out of the shadow, followed just a second later by "Durry" and "Doug." The prowler's first instinct was to run, but he dare not; that would proclaim guilt.
"I'd hate to go in without Greg," replied Dick. "He and I generally work together in anything we attempt." "That was just the kick Holmesy made when you -when things were different," corrected the captain of the Army nine hastily. "Well, you see, 'Durry, we were always chums back in the good old High School days.
"But we can't, Durry." "No; I know it." "So what's the use of talking." Nevertheless, there was a lot of talking, and dozens waylaid Greg and tried to induce him to reconsider. But he wouldn't, and that was all there was to it. No one even thought of lifting the ban from Prescott in order to gain either or both of these cadet athletes. West Point cadets are consistent.
"Durry, I'll come home with my shield, or on it," muttered Carter, with set teeth and white lips as he went to pick up the bat that he was to swing. Carter was not one of the best stick men of the Army baseball outfit, but there is sometimes such a thing as batting luck. For this, Carter prayed under his breath. Darrin, of course, was determined to baffle this strong-hope man of West Point.
"I can quite believe that," nodded Dick. "Well, it -it was a girl, of course," confessed "Durry." "You know, cadets have a habit of being interested in girls, and this girl means everything to me. She's up in Newburgh, and was ill. I thought she was more ill than she really was. But I knew that I could hardly get official permission to go and see her, so -so I chanced it and went without leave.
Even now Jordan used his splendid physique and strength in a determined, bitter struggle. But "Durry" helped turn the fellow over, face down, and then all three sat on their catch. "Doug," however, felt something hard. Leaping up, he made a quick search, then drew from Jordan's hip pocket a length of lead pipe wrapped in red flannel.
"Yes; I suppose so," almost sighed Durville. "Why, hang you, Durry, you talk like a man whose good opinion can be won by a kicking." "Do you" asked Durville, with a warning flash in his eyes. "Oh, don't take me too seriously," protested Jordan. "But I cannot help marveling at your near liking for the man who landed you in such a scrape."
"On account of the form in which the request is put," said Durville, as soon as he had secured the chair's recognition, "I move that our president's resignation be accepted in the same good faith in which it is offered." "Thank you, Durry, old man!" called Douglass in a low voice. A seconder was promptly obtained. Then Chairman Fullerton put the motion.
At this moment the score was tied -three to three! "Get out there and coach Lantin, old ramrod," begged "Durry," and Dick was off, outside of the foul line, his eye on Dave Darrin and on every other living figure of the Navy nine.
"What kind of a ball do you like best, Durry?" asked Prescott, smilingly. "A medium slow one, close to the end of the stick, about here," replied Durville. "I'll try to give you something else, then," chuckled Dick. And give the batsman something else was just what he did. Crack! Durville swatted the ball. It rose steeply at first, then sailed away gracefully towards the clouds.
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