Even she, as the mother of a midshipman, felt her share in the rivalry between the nation's two great service schools.
"You will bring Laura and Belle up to some of the hops this winter, I hope, Mrs.Bentley," Dick begged.
"Oh, she's pledged to take us to West Point, and to Annapolis," broke in Belle Meade, smiling.

"You don't think we are going to lose the hops at either Academy while we have friends there, do you ?" "I should hope not," Dick replied earnestly.

Five minutes before train time Leonard Cameron appeared.

He greeted the two cadets with great cordiality.
"I couldn't help coming to see you off, Prescott," Cameron found chance to say in an undertone.

"Laura is so deeply interested in your success that I, too, am longing to hear every possible good word as to your future career.