"
"Very odd, indeed!" sneered the turnback.
"It is a very slight favor," continued Prescott, "and it is this:
Don't at any time venture to address me, except upon official
business."
With that Prescott stepped resolutely around the cadet in his
path, and went forward at a stiff stride.
Haynes remained for some moments where he was, gazing after Dick
with a curious, leering look.
"Prescott is a coward---that's what he is!" muttered the turnback.
"If he weren't, I said enough to him just now to cause him to
leap at my throat. Humph! Anyone can beat a coward, and without
credit. Prescott, your days at the Military Academy are numbered!
You, an Army officer? Humph!"
Though it would be hard to understand why, Haynes felt much better
after that brief interview. Perhaps it was because, all along,
he had feared Cadet Prescott. Now the turnback no longer feared
his enemy in the corps.
How would the feud end? How could it end?
CHAPTER XIX
THE TRAITOR OF THE RIDING HALL
If Dick gave no further outward attention to Haynes, he was nevertheless
bothered about the fellow.
"Haynes isn't fit to go through and become an officer; to be set
up over other men," Prescott told himself often.
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