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Dick Prescott’s Third Year at West Point

CHAPTER XX
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I've been saving the names of inquirers, and will tell you the names in the morning.

All except the names of the cadets, that is.

There was too big a mob of cadets for us to attempt to keep the names." It was a painful, restless, feverish night for Prescott.

He slept a part of the time, though when he did his sleep was filled with nightmares.
The surgeons won his gratitude by their devotion to his interests.
The first half of the night Captain Goodwin was in at least every hour.

The latter half of the night it was Lieutenant Sadtler who made the round.
By permission Cadet Holmes came to the hospital office just after breakfast.
It was a gloomy face that poor Greg wore back to barracks with him.
The surgeons had spoken hopefully, but--- "Brains always work better than brute force," Haynes told himself, struggling hard to preserve his self-esteem..


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