Thus he would be dropped for deficiency, and would not have to admit to anyone that he had allowed himself to be driven from the Military Academy by the "silence" that had been extended to him.
Jordan knew better than to go near the fiery young Anstey, so he managed to induce Durville to speak to the Virginian as to Prescott's plans.
"I don't know Mr.Prescott's intentions, suh," replied Anstey with perfect truth and a good deal of dignity.

"I am bound, suh, to follow the class's action, suh, much as I disapprove of it.
So I have had no word with Mr.Prescott later than you have." "But you know the fellow's roommate, Mr.Holmes," suggested Durville.
"I am under the impression that you do, too, suh," replied Anstey significantly, yet without infusing offence into his even tones.
It was no use.

The first class could only guess.

No cadet knew, unless it were Holmes, what Prescott's intentions were about quitting the corps in the near future.

And Greg, usually both chatty and impulsive, could be as cold and silent as a sphinx where his chum's secrets or interests were concerned.
Had he wished, he might have gone home at Christmas, for a day or two, for he was on the good-conduct roll; but Dick felt that Christmas at home would be a heart break just now.