“Fellows, this hits us! I’m going to offer myself to Uncle Sam! Are you with me?”
[CHAPTER VII]
CHUNKY’S TROUBLE
Ned Slade clapped Jerry Hopkins on the back with such vigor that the latter almost lost his balance.
“What does that mean?” Jerry asked.
“It means I’m with you!” was the answer. “We’ll all enlist and start for the other side as soon as they’ll let us! I was just wishing for some excuse to get out of going back to Boxwood Hall, and this’ll be it all right!”
“Do you think we can make it?” asked Bob. “I mean will our folks let us cut school?”
“Oh, I guess so,” answered Jerry easily, though, to tell the truth, he had some doubts about it.
“Let’s go somewhere and ask about enlisting,” suggested Ned. “We want to get into this as soon as we can, and the sooner the better. There must be some way of finding out the quickest way of getting into the army.”