"The first two girls, each in turn, asked to be released, after we'd been engaged for a while.

So, now, I'm engaged to my third girl." Holmes spoke seriously, and with evident truth.

Dick leaned back, staring curiously at his chum, though he did not ask the latest girl's name.
"At least, I was engaged, at latest accounts," Greg went on, after a few moments.

"By the time I reach West Point, just as likely as not, I'll get a letter asking me to consider the matter as past history only." "Greg, Greg!" muttered Prescott, shaking his head gravely.

"I'm afraid you're not very constant.
"I ?" retorted Cadet Holmes indignantly.