"Eight seconds better than Lew Flapp!" was the cry. "And Tom Rover came
in four seconds better!"

"That shows what Sam Rover would have done had Franell kept out of his
way."

"The race should have gone to Sam Rover!"

So the cries kept up until Captain Putnam compelled the cadets to quiet
down.

Lew Flapp and his cronies were much disgusted and left the field almost
immediately.

"He's afraid to stay," declared Dick. "He doesn't want Sam to challenge
him," and this was the truth.

The foot races were followed by some prize shooting, a race on the
lake, and then by a tub race, and a race in sacks, which called forth
much laughter, not only from the cadets, but also from the visitors.

"It was just splendid!" declared Alice Staton to Dick, when it was all
over. "I never had such a lovely time in my life."

"Nor I," added her twin sister. "But your brother should have had that
running race. It was a shame to knock him down."

"Never mind," said Tom, who had come up. "All the boys know he can run
faster than the winner anyway."

A luncheon was served to the visitors by Captain Putnam's order and
after that the cadets and their newly-made friends were allowed to go
walking, boating, or driving, as they saw fit. Swings had been erected
in the grove close to the encampment and these were constantly
patronized.

"It must be lots of fun to be a cadet," said Alice Staton, when ready
to depart. "If I was a boy I should want to go to a military academy."

"Oh, it's not all play," said Tom. "We have to work pretty hard over
our studies and sometimes a fellow doesn't feel like drilling, but has
to do it all the same."

It can truly be said that the Flapp crowd were much disappointed over
the results of the day's contests. Only two events had been won--a boat
race of small importance and the race in which Lew Flapp had come off
victor, and the latter victory was dimmed by the knowledge that Sam
Rover had cut down Flapp's time over the course by eight seconds.

"We may as well sell out and go home," said Pender, in deep disgust.

"But we can't go home," returned Rockley. "We've got to stay right here
and take all the taunts that come along."

"Nobody shall taunt me," cried Jackson. "If they try it I'll punch
somebody's nose."

"And to think we lost our money, too," said Ben Hurdy, after a pause.
"That's what makes me sick."

"Reckon you didn't lose much," said Lew Flapp, with a sickly grin.

"I lost all I had