"I'm very glad you asked for a further trial for Prescott," murmured
Lieutenant Lawrence to the captain of the Army nine.
"I thought you would be, sir," Durville replied.
"We have a line-up, after these two men have been trained into
shape, that will make one of the strongest Army nines in a generation."
"We'd have tanned the Navy last year, sir," ventured Durville, "if
we had known what material we had in Prescott and Holmes, and had
been able to get them out."
At cadet mess that evening the talk ran high with joy. West Point
was sure it had found its baseball gait!
CHAPTER XVII
READY FOR THE ARMY-NAVY GAME
In between times, in the strenuous hours that followed, Dick found
the time, somehow, to write two letters of moment.
One was to his mother, the other to Laura Bentley. In both he
told how the last bar to his happiness in the Army had been removed.
Yet Dick did not go very deeply into details. He merely explained
that the class had discovered, on indisputable evidence, that
he had been dealt with unjustly. He made it plain, however, that
he was now again in high favor with his class, and that he had
even been honored by reelection to the class presidency.
"Greg, you send Dave Darrin a short note for me, will you?" begged
Dick, as he toiled away at the missive to Laura. "Old Dave will
want only the bare facts; that will be enough for him.
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