Then he replied gruffly:
"No; I don't deny it."
"Why did you do that, Haynes?"
"I haven't admitted that I did do it."
"You know that you did, though."
"Humph!"
"Why did you do it?"
"I'll tell you, then," hissed the turnback. "It was because neither
West Point nor the Army is going to be big enough for both of us!"
"When do you intend to resign?" demanded prescott coolly
"Re-----" gasped Haynes "Resign? I?"
Then you imagine that I am going to quit, or that you're going
to force me to do so? retorted Prescott. "Haynes, even up to
this hour I have hesitated to believe the half evidence of my
own eyes. I have tried to convince myself that no man who wears
the honored gray of West Point could do such a dastardly piece
of work. And you have as good as admitted it to me."
"Well," sneered the turnback, what do you think you're going to
do about it?"
"If I knew," glared Dick, "I wouldn't tell you until the time
came."
"It will never come," laughed Haynes harshly. "That is, your
time of triumph over me will never come. What else may happen
it is yet a little too early to say."
Cadet Prescott felt all the cold rage that was possible to him
surging up inside.
"Haynes," he went on, "it may seem odd of me to ask a favor from
you.
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