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Then, after a pause, a cunning look crept slowly into the eyes of the turnback, as he throbbed under his breath: If I can have anything to do with it, he wont be much longer in the Army! For just a moment, ere the teams left the field, the old Gridley chums had a chance to rush over to each other. "I was afraid of you, Dick," Dave confessed. "Not more than I was of you, Dave, laughed Prescott."
Haynes glanced down, saw the thing, and pretended to be greatly astonished. "How did I get that thing in my shoe?" he cried. Then, with an appearance of indolent indifference that was rather overdone, the turnback stooped low enough to extract the pin. But his fingers trembled in the act, and half a dozen cadets noted the fact.
Haynes heard, and his face was convulsed with rage as he turned swiftly away. "Queer how folks take so much stock in that fellow Prescott!" muttered the turnback. "Why can't a man like Lieutenant Carney see that Prescott is nothing but a dub, while Holmes is only a dub's helper?"
Anstey, from his seat, had been "all eyes" for the pair whom he now knew to be the heard-about Darrin and Dalzell. All Anstey's further speculation was cut short. The Army and Navy elevens were lining up to start play. Turnback Haynes watched the game closely, darkly. He wanted to note and to remember every play near the Army's left end today.
Despite the fact that he had been through the first half of the year before, Haynes actually did go somewhat stale in some of the studies. Some of the cadets who lived near enough were permitted to go home at the Christmas holidays, and the turnback was among this number. Yet Haynes came back. In the January examinations he stood badly, getting place rather near the foot of the second class.
In his dreams Haynes always reviewed his hopes of successful villainy, or else found himself trying to put through some new bit of profound rascality. Always the turnback awoke from such dreams to find himself in a cold sweat.
Now, with intense interest, he watched the proceedings of his roommate, turnback Haynes, who was up and moving stealthily about the room, every action being clearly revealed in the bright moonlight that was streaming through the windows. "Wow, what on earth is the fellow doing?" muttered the puzzled Pierson.
Turnback Haynes, who had been watching Dick with a sort of wild fascination, noted Dick's latest move. The train, which had been traveling at high speed, now slowed down to some twenty-five miles an hour in order to pass over a river.
Perhaps it was because, all along, he had feared Cadet Prescott. Now the turnback no longer feared his enemy in the corps. How would the feud end? How could it end? If Dick gave no further outward attention to Haynes, he was nevertheless bothered about the fellow. "Haynes isn't fit to go through and become an officer; to be set up over other men," Prescott told himself often.
"Yes," lied the turnback. Anstey heard, though he did not pay much heed to the statement at the time. There were many, of course, who asked for Dick. Greg had not seen his chum for some time. In his own heart Holmes felt sure that Dick, tired of being congratulated, had sought retirement -in the baggage car, probably. So Greg had little to say, and did not go in search of his chum.
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