What a change a year had made! The "Boys of Lawrence" were no longer amateur sportsmen.

They were scattered all over the country, engaged in the work of sustaining the integrity of the best government on earth.

Would they ever all meet again?
It was not at all likely.

Perhaps some had already been offered up on the altar of their country; and if he should ever live to return home, there would be some familiar faces missing.

In short, Frank was homesick.