POSTSCRIPT When the next commencement swung around Fred Ripley, who had managed to "go straight" all through his senior year, was among those graduated.

What became of him will yet be learned by our readers in another volume.
There are a host of other Gridley fellows also to be accounted for.
Their part in the subsequent history of Gridley, and of the world in general, will also yet be told, all in the proper place.
"Prin.," too, may yet come in for some attention.
Dick & Co.

did not take part in basket ball nor any of the organized winter athletics though they kept constantly in training.

But these young men realized that the High School is, first of all, a place for academic training; so, after the football season had ended so gloriously, they went back to their books with renewed vigor.
Laura and Belle, as they neared the end of their junior year, went almost from girlhood into womanhood, as is the way with girls.
Yet neither Miss Meade nor Miss Bentley found Dick or Dave "too young" for their frank, girlish admiration.
"You see, Dick, that we were quite right about you and Dave having all the grit that goes with the highest needs of the military profession," Laura remarked.

"Your conduct at the fire shows the stuff that would be displayed by Dick & Co.