Such readers will well remember these two manly young Americans as members of that famous sextette, "Dick & Co.," famous in the annals of the good old Gridley High School.
Nor will such readers need to be told how Dick won, over the heads of forty competitors, the nomination of Congressman Spokes, the boy carrying all before him in a rigid competitive examination at the Gridley High School.

The same readers will remember how Greg Holmes secured his own nomination from Senator Frayne.

This was all related in the closing volume of the High School Series, "THE HIGH SCHOOL CAPTAIN OF THE TEAM." Our former readers will also recall that Dave Darrin and Dan Daizell "ran away" with the nominations for cadetships at Annapolis, while Tom Reade and Harry Hazelton, the last of famous Dick & Co., went West seeking their careers as young engineers.
To be a cadet at West Point, and then to blossom out as an officer in the Regular Army--this had long been Dick's fondest hope.

Greg, too, had caught the Army fever, and now suffered from it as severely as Dick Prescott himself.
And now, at what seemed like the critical moment, this tedious waiting was almost maddening.
Before Mr.Ward's desk stood a lonely looking young man, red faced and fidgeting as though he were going through a fearful ordeal.
"What on earth can they be doing to that fellow ?" wondered Greg, in a barely audible undertone.

"That fine-looking old gentleman can't be hazing a cadet ?" "No; but I wonder what the ordeal is," Dick whispered back.