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Dick Prescott’s Third Year at West Point

CHAPTER XIX
10/12

Just lie where you are until we get a medical officer here.

Mr.Haynes, pass your lines to the man at your left and run to the telephone.
Ask for a medical officer and two hospital corps men with a stretcher." The turnback leaped quickly to obey.

This gave him the coveted chance to get away by himself, where he could secretly remove from his boot the little black pin that had been responsible for this excitement.
Surgeon and hospital men came on the run.

The surgeon declined to make an examination there, but directed his men to lift the injured cadet to the stretcher and take him to the hospital.
In the meantime some enlisted men had caught and quieted Satan, leading him from the tanbark.
"That brute never will be used again, if I have my way," muttered Captain Albutt, loudly enough to be heard by most of the cadets of the squad.
Then the drill proceeded as though nothing had happened.
"I fixed my man that time, and easily enough," growled Haynes to himself.

"He's out of the service, from now on.


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