"
"I wonder if that fellow will pass," cried Greg wonderingly.
"Oh, I rather think he'll make it easily," replied Dick, seating
himself at his own desk. "Bert wasn't a fool at his studies. He spent
more than three years at Gridley High School, and since then has
had a school year and a half at one of the finest prep. schools in
the country. Oh, I guess he'll get through all right."
"So we've got to have him here for a comrade!" sighed Greg
disgustedly, as he picked up his text-book on English.
CHAPTER V
CANDIDATE DODGE IS CRITICAL
Both cadets had studied for ten minutes perhaps, when a knock
sounded at their door.
The very unusualness of this caused both youngsters to look
around, then at each other.
Had it been any cadet officer making an inspection--as was likely
to happen at any minute of the waking day--he would have come
straight into the room. And any other cadet, after knocking, would
have followed this by opening the door and stepping inside.
Rap-rap! sounded again.
"Oh, come in," called Dick.
The door opened. Bert Dodge, dressed in the height of the
prevailing fashion, looked inside.
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