"I wanted to start a new life, for both of us, here at West Point.

But the fellow won't let me.

He is always getting in my way.

Oh, what a laugh there'll be in Gridley, among the mucker part of the population, when they find that I'm not class president, but that Dick Prescott is!" Even after he lay in bed, following taps, Bert Dodge could not sleep.

He lay tossing restlessly, dark thoughts surging through his mind.
"No place on earth seems large enough for Dick Prescott and me together!" muttered Dodge in the dark.