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I've clean forgotten to get myself ready. You hustle, and I'll try not to be late in the formation." As Cadet Prescott hastened along through the lower corridor, he came face to face with the turnback. Haynes stopped short, his jaw drooping. For just a second he stiffened his arms as though to throw himself in an attitude of defence. Halting, without speaking or raising a hand, Dick Prescott looked squarely into the other man's eyes. Haynes turned ghastly pale, his jaw moving nervously as though he would speak and could not. A smile of scorn flashed into Prescotts face. Haynes fairly writhed beneath that contemptuous look. Then, still without a word or a sound, Prescott passed on. "He did it!" muttered Dick to himself. Yet, with the certainty of the turnbacks guilt, Prescott did not wish Haynes any personal harm. 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. "If he really pushed me from the train," muttered Prescott to himself, "I hope Haynes worries about it until he fesses cold in some study and so has to leave the Military Academy. For he'll never be fit to be an officer. He couldn't command other men with justice." CHAPTER XVII MR. CADET SLOWPOKE 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. Yet he pulled through and retained his place in the corps. Dick and Greg, who did not go home over the holidays, both did fairly well in January. Each secured a number not far above the bottom of the second third of the class. On Washington's Birthday, the cadets had a holiday after dinner. The day, however, was ten-fold joyous for Dick, because Mrs. Bentley, Laura and Belle Meade were expected on the afternoon of that day, the girls to attend the cadet hop at Cullum Hall in the evening. Dick and Greg, in their spooniest uniforms, were at the
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