Our old readers are aware of the fact that Dodge had been forced out of the Military Academy for dishonorable conduct; that it was the cadets, not the authorities, who had compelled his departure, and that Dodge resigned and left before the close of his second year.
Readers of these volumes of the _High School Boys' Series_ know all about Bert Dodge in the course of his career at Gridley High School.

Dodge, back in the old days in Gridley, had been a persistent enemy of Dick & Co., as Prescott and his five chums had always been called in the High School.

Of those five chums Greg, as is well known, was Dick's comrade at West Point.

Dave Darrin and Dan Dalzell were now midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis.

Their adventures while learning to be United States Navel officers, are fully set forth in The Annapolis Series.
Tom Reade and Harry Hazelton had chosen to go West, where they became civil engineers engaged in railway construction through the wild parts of the country, as fully set forth in the _Young Engineers' Series_.
Just after Mrs.Davidson left the bookstore there were no customers left, so Dick had a few moments in which to chat with his mother.
"What has become of the fellow Dodge ?" asked the young West Pointer.
"Oh, haven't I told you ?" asked his mother.