While there is nothing whatever to prevent a sneak from being admitted to the United States Military Academy, the cadets believe firmly that a dishonorable fellow is bound to be caught, before he graduates, and that he will be kicked promptly out of the service by one means or another.
"Has the fellow gone yet ?" inquired Spurlock.
"He'll slip away while the rest of us are away at dress parade, I guess," responded Pierson.

"Haynes is in cit.

clothes already, and is just fussing around a bit." "He must feel fine!" muttered Brayton musingly.

"I could almost say `poor fellow.'" "So could I," agreed Prescott, with a good deal of feeling.

"It would break my heart to be compelled to leave the corps, except at graduation, so I can imagine how any other fellow must feel." "Oh, well, he'd never be happy in the Army, anyway," replied Spurlock.
"Out in the Army the other officers can take care of a dishonorable comrade even more effectively than we do." "What made Haynes fess out, I wonder ?" pondered Brayton aloud.
"Being sent to Coventry got on his nerves so that he couldn't pull up enough at review and the writs," replied Pierson.