The Project Gutenberg EBook of Dick Prescotts's Fourth Year at West Point
by H. Irving Hancock

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

Title: Dick Prescotts's Fourth Year at West Point
Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps

Author: H. Irving Hancock

Release Date: July 3, 2004 [EBook #12807]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FOURTH YEAR AT WEST POINT ***

Produced by Jim Ludwig

DICK PRESCOTT'S FOURTH YEAR AT WEST POINT
or
Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps

By H. Irving Hancock

CONTENTS

CHAPTERS
I. Dick Reports a Brother Cadet
II. Jordan Reaches Out for Revenge
III. Catching a Man for Breach of "Con."
IV. The Class Committee Calls
V. The Cadet "Silence" Falls
VI. Trying to Explain to the Girls
VII. Jordan Meets Disaster
VIII. Fate Serves Dick Her Meanest Trick
IX. The Class Takes Final Action
X. Lieutenant Denton's Straight Talk
XI. The News from Franklin Field
XII. Ready to Break the Camel's Back
XIII. The Figures in the Dark
XIV. The Story Carried on the Wind
XV. The Class Meeting "Sizzles"
XVI. Finding the Baseball Gait
XVII. Ready for the Army-Navy Game
XVIII. Dan Dalzell's Crabtown Grin
XIX. When the Army Fans Winced
XX. The Vivid Finish of the Game
XXI. A Cloud on Dick's Horizon
XXII. Cadet Prescott Commands at Squadron Drill
XXIII. A West Pointer's Love Affair
XXIV. Conclusion

CHAPTER I

DICK REPORTS A BROTHER CADET

"Detachment halt!" commanded the engineer officer in charge.

Out on the North Dock at West Point the column of cadets had marched,
and now, at the word, came to an abrupt stop.

This detachment, made up of members of the first and third classes
in the United States Military Academy, was out on this August
forenoon for instruction in actual military engineering.

The task, which must be accomplished in a scant two hours, was
to lay a pontoon bridge across an indentation of the Hudson River,
this indentation being a few hundred feet across, and representing,
in theory, an unfordable river.

"Mr. Prescott!"

Cadet Richard Prescott, now a first classman, and captain of one
of the six cadet comp