We haven't changed the story any since our return.

We'll tell you fellows, for we never used to have any secrets from you in the old days.

But you mustn't pass the yarn around." "No," grimaced Greg.

"You mustn't tell the story around.

Dodge has threatened to have us imprisoned for life, for criminal libel, if we allow his secret to reach profane ears." "Just why did Dodge leave West Point ?" asked Reade.
"He was invited to," replied Prescott, "by a class committee on honor." "I thought it was something like that," grunted Reade.
Then, in low tones that could not be overheard by other patrons of the ice cream place, Dick Prescott told the story of Dodge's cribbing at West Point, and of the way that Bert nearly succeeded in palming his guilt off on to Prescott.
"I'd believe every word of that yarn, even if a plumb stranger told it to me," declared Hazelton.