The Army is merely nothing---positive zero!" "Laughing good-humoredly, Greg piloted Belle up the long, winding walk that leads to the West Point plain.

Dick and Laura soon fell in behind, at some distance, walking very slowly.
"Did you have a tiresome trip here ?" inquired Dick.
"No; a very pleasant one," Laura replied.
"I should think a long journey would be tedious to women traveling without male escort," Dick went on.
"We had escort as far as New York," Laura replied promptly.
"Oh, you did ?" inquired Prescott, feeling a swift sinking at heart.
"Yes; Mr.Cameron had to make a flying trip to New York.

He had to come at about this time, so he put it off for three or four days in order to travel through with us.

Wasn't that nice of him ?" "Extremely nice of him," admitted the cadet rather huskily.

"I---I suppose he will return with you from New York." "We expect him to," Laura admitted.