Bessie Frost says Dodge left West Point because he thought the fellows there rather below his grade socially." "Perhaps they are," nodded Dick gravely, but in even tones.

"I have heard it stated that about sixty per cent.

of the cadets are the sons of wage-earners.

Indeed, one of the cadets whom I most respect has not attempted to conceal the fact that, until he graduates and begins to draw officer's pay, his mother will have to continue to support herself at the washtub.

That young man is now in the first class, and I can tell you that we are all mighty anxious to see that man graduate and find himself where he can look after a noble mother who has the misfortune to be unusually poor in purse." "Then as an American, I'm proud of West Point, if it has fellows with no more false shame than that," cried Foss heartily.
"Why, I always thought West Point a very swell place, extremely so," murmured Bessie Frost.