inish at Cullum Hall. Brayton, Spurlock
and their classmates were honorably through with West Point, their
new careers about to open before them.

Cadet Dick Prescott came forth from the exercises, a look of radiant
happiness on his face.

He had been ordered before a board of surgeons that morning. Just
as a formality he was to go before a medical board again in August.

"But that's only a piece of red tape," Captain Goodwin had explained
to him. "By wonderful good luck, or rather, no doubt, thanks to
Captain Albutt's gallantry, your spine is now as sound as ever.
Come before us in August, but I can tell you now that the August
verdict will be O.K."

"My, but you look like the favorite uncle of the candy kid!" muttered
Greg, as the two chums in gray strode along together.

"Why shouldn't I?" retorted Dick. "My spine is all right, and
I'm to stay in the service. Then besides, Greg, old fellow, think
what we are now."

"Well, what are we?" asked Greg.

"First classmen! Only a year more, Greg, to the glorious old Army!
Think of it, boy! In blue, in a year, and wearing shoulder-straps!"

"I wish we had just graduated, like Brayton, Spurlock and the rest,"
muttered Greg.

"You want to rush things, don't you, lad?"

"But Dick, you see," murmured Holmes, "a cadet can't marry."

"Oh, still harping on Miss Number Three?" laughed his chum.

"Number---thr-----" stammered Greg.

"You don't mean to say that it is all off with Miss Number Three?"

"Oh, yes; months ago."

"She broke the engagement?"

"Yes," admitted Holmes. "But I don't care."

"What's the present girl's number?" teased Dick.

"Five," confessed Greg with desperate candor. "But this girl,
Dick, is worth all the others. And she'll stick. After all, it's
only a year, now, that she'll have to wait."

At this point, however, we find Dick and Greg to be first classmen.
So their further adventures are necessarily reserved for the
next and concluding volume in this series, which will be published
under the title, "_Dick Prescott's Fourth Year At West Point;
Or, Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps_." All we need
to tell the reader is that this coming volume will contain the
most rousing story of all in the _West Point Series_.

THE END

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