"But say, it _does_ seem good to set eyes on you again, after two years." All of our readers who have read the "_High School Boys Series_" and the "_West Point Series_" know all about Dick Prescott, the famous leader of Dick & Co.
"What are you now ?" Tom asked eagerly.

"A general, or only a colonel ?" "Nothing but a shavetail," laughed Dick.

"Shavetail is the army nickname for a second lieutenant." "I've got to join my regiment, the Thirty-fourth Infantry, out in Colorado very soon," continued Prescott.

"But I came down here to spend a few days with you, if you can stand me." "If we can stand you!" chuckled Tom, patting his old high school chum on the back.

"Say, where's Greg ?" Greg Holmes had been another member of Dick & Co., and Dick's chum and comrade at West Point.
"Well, you see," laughed Lieutenant Prescott, "Greg has been falling in love with six girls a year regularly ever since he entered West Point.
Now that he's in the army he has started in to increase the yearly average.