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"I feel sure of your sympathy. Prescott, and of yours, too, Holmes.
Thank you both," replied the banker. "You are both fine, manly
young fellows. I wish I had been favored with a son like either
of you. Now, I have no son!"
Dick and Greg got away as unobtrusively as they could.
Bert Dodge did try to go home to see his Mother, but, by his father's
orders, he was put out of the house by two men servants.
Immediately after that Bert vanished from Gridley. At first he
tried the effect of writing whining, penitent, begging letters home.
Receiving no replies, Bert finally drifted off into the space of
the wide world.
Later on in the course of these chronicles he may reappear.
Lawyer Griffin consulted with the district attorney, and it was
decided not to make perjury cases out of the affair. Fessenden,
Bettrick and Deevers, however, were all three warned and the district
attorney filed away the lying affidavits, in case a use for them
should ever come up.
By degrees the story of Bert Dodge's latest infamy leaked out.
The news, however, did not come through any word spread by either
of our young West Pointers.
CHAPTER IX
BACK TO THE GOOD, GRAY LIFE
A Glorious summer it was for the two second classman on furlough!
Yet, like all other things, good and otherwise, it had to come
to an end.
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