You should have heard the fierce row we put up at the class meeting last night." When it was too late Greg could have bitten his tongue.
"Class meeting ?" asked Laura.

"Then has there been further action taken ?" Greg nodded, biting his lips.
"What was last night's meeting held for ?" persisted Laura.
"To try to oust Dick from the class presidency," confessed Cadet Holmes.
"Did they do it ?" quivered Laura Bentley.
"No!" "Ah! Then the attempt was defeated.

Dick is to retain the presidency of his class ?" "Action was deferred," replied Greg in a low voice.
He wished with all his heart he could get away, for he saw that, no matter how he tried to hedge the facts about, these keen-witted girls realized that Dick Prescott's plight was about as black as it could be for a young man who wanted, with all his soul, to remain in the military service of his country..