Nothing but a matter of the first importance would ever have driven me to slip into 'cits.' and sneak off the post in that fashion." "I can quite believe that," nodded Dick.
"Well, it---it was a girl, of course," confessed "Durry." "You know, cadets have a habit of being interested in girls, and this girl means everything to me.

She's up in Newburgh, and was ill.

I thought she was more ill than she really was.

But I knew that I could hardly get official permission to go and see her, so---so I chanced it and went without leave.

I wouldn't have done such a thing under any other circumstances." "Did the young lady recover ?" asked Prescott with deep interest.
"Oh, yes; I dragged her to the hop the other night.