But now the chance has come, I find myself an utter coward," confessed Dave.
"How so ?" "I'm in a blue funk for fear some other fellow will get it away from me," confessed Darrin honestly.

"And if I fail in this great ambition of my life, I'm wondering if I'll have the nerve to go on living afterwards." "Brace up!" laughed Dick protestingly.
"Now, honestly, old fellow, aren't you just badly scared!" Dave demanded.
"Whisper, Dave! I am," Dick admitted.
"Well, there is nothing like having some one that you can confess everything to, is there ?" muttered Darrin.
"I guess it has done us both good to own up," laughed Dick.

"But see here!" "Well ?" "I simply won't allow myself to be scared." "Then you're as keen for West Point as I am for Annapolis," retorted Darrin suspiciously.
"Dave, old fellow, you know what the Gridley spirit demands?
You know how we and the rest of the fellows managed to win eternally in athletics?
Just because we made up our minds that defeat was impossible." "That's fine," laughed Dave.

"But we'll probably have to buck up against more fellows than we do on an athletic field.

And probably dozens of them go in with the same determination." "I don't care," declared Prescott.