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Haynes felt still better when the battalion stepped away at its rhythmic step. He did not have to look at any of his contemptuous comrades now, nor did he need a word from them. Somehow, though in a daze, the turnback got through dress parade without reproof from any of the watchful cadet officers. Then, almost immediately after dress parade, came the hardest ordeal of all.
Haynes's heart gave a quick jump when he saw that to Dick's lot had fallen Satan, a fiery black, the worst tempered and most treacherous horse in the lot. "My chance is coming sooner than I had thought for", quivered the turnback. Dropping his handkerchief, Haynes bent over and quickly slipped the black pin in at the toe of his right boot.
"Softly, Haynes!" cried Pierson warningly. "What is this to you?" demanded the turnback hotly. "I am under the impression," replied Pierson, "that this is not a personal matter so much as it is a class affair." But Haynes, feeling that he was almost cornered, became reckless and desperate. "This is a personal matter, Pierson. Stand aside until I knock that cur down."
Turnback Haynes was quite able to convince himself that Dick Prescott, who avoided him, was really his worst enemy in the world. So, one Saturday afternoon, in early April, it chanced that Dick and Cadet Haynes took to the same stretch of less-traveled road over beyond engineers' quarters. Suddenly, going in opposite directions, they met face to face at a sharp bend in the road.
The visitors had counted on victory as theirs. There was a noticeable silence among the Lehigh "boosters" as they clambered down from their from their seats and strolled moodily away. Only one man had any adverse commend. That man was turnback Haynes, and all he said was: "Humph!" After that Dick and Greg turned out every day for practice with the team.
The only greatly perturbed thought that ran through Dick's mind was: "That fellow is not fit for the Army. Must he be allowed to go on and graduate?" Thrice during the dinner period Dick allowed his glance to rove over to the turnback. Not once did he catch Haynes's eye, but that young man was making only a pretence at eating.
Afterwards the Board writes its report on the Military Academy, and suggests anything that occurs to the members as being an improvement on the way things are being already conducted by Army officers who know their business. One man in the second class was going badly to pieces in these closing days of the academic year. That man was turnback Haynes.
He did not avert his head, but he took no pains to look at Haynes, merely passing the turnback and gaining the quadrangle below. Now the utter despair of his position came over Haynes. How suddenly it had come! And even Haynes, with his four years at West Point, could hardly realize how the Coventry had been pronounced and carried out in so very few minutes after release from cavalry drill.
When they speak to him of Salvation by Faith and Conviction by Sin, he cannot understand what they mean. As he leaves them they are reminded of one Temporary, 'once a forward man in religion. Temporary dwelt in Graceless, 'a town two miles from Honesty, next door to one Turnback. He 'was going on pilgrimage, but became acquainted with one Save Self, and was never more heard of.
"Oh, you?" remarked Haynes, in a harsh, sneering voice. Prescott barely nodded coldly, and would have passed on, but Haynes stepped fairly in his path. "Prescott," cried the turnback, "I don't like you!" "Then we are about even in our estimate of each other," responded Dick indifferently. "Were you following me up, just now?"
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