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CHAPTER I.
On the way to West Point
The northbound train on the West Shore line bore a lively company of Yale men on their way to West Point with the Yale nine. The members of the nine and substitutes, and the Yale coaches with Dick Merriwell at their head, occupied a parlor car, in which were a few other persons, Two of whom were in the trim gray uniform of the United States Military Academy.
One of the two was Lieutenant Arthur Ball Clifford -- he always mouthed it in full-—who was a subpaymaster. The name oif the young fellow with him, though he was introduced by Clifford, no one caught.
“So you're on your way to capture V/est Point?” said Clifford.
"We expect to have the defenders of the old academy worried about this time tomorrow,” Dick Merriwell returned, with a smile. ...
"We’ve got a good nine this year,” urged Clifford,, “and we’r;e'en our own grounds.”
"To be on its own grounds is an advantage that Vi/est Point every year, if it is an advantage.”
Bill Brady drew himself up lazily, and laughed. "Uh. isn't a regular prison pen over there, you know” .."The first two years of a cadet’s life he isn’t permitted to leave at all and even after that the amount he gets isn’t going to hurt him.”
I’d want to go to Vest Point,” one of the Yale men declared.
On the way to West Point
The northbound train on the West Shore line bore a lively company of Yale men on their way to West Point with the Yale nine. The members of the nine and substitutes, and the Yale coaches with Dick Merriwell at their head, occupied a parlor car, in which were a few other persons, Two of whom were in the trim gray uniform of the United States Military Academy.
One of the two was Lieutenant Arthur Ball Clifford -- he always mouthed it in full-—who was a subpaymaster. The name oif the young fellow with him, though he was introduced by Clifford, no one caught.
“So you're on your way to capture V/est Point?” said Clifford.
"We expect to have the defenders of the old academy worried about this time tomorrow,” Dick Merriwell returned, with a smile. ...
"We’ve got a good nine this year,” urged Clifford,, “and we’r;e'en our own grounds.”
"To be on its own grounds is an advantage that Vi/est Point every year, if it is an advantage.”
Bill Brady drew himself up lazily, and laughed. "Uh. isn't a regular prison pen over there, you know” .."The first two years of a cadet’s life he isn’t permitted to leave at all and even after that the amount he gets isn’t going to hurt him.”
I’d want to go to Vest Point,” one of the Yale men declared.
Publication
Street & Smith Publishers, Nov. 4, 1912