“It suits me!” exclaimed Jack, and his heart gave a bound.
“Suits me, too,” added Pepper. “I am much obliged, sir.”
“There is some mystery here, and some day perhaps we shall get at the bottom of it. I expect you to help me all you can to clear it up.”
“Captain Putnam, am I to—re—to——” Jack could not go on.
“To what, Ruddy?”
“Mr. Crabtree said I was to—er—to give up being major of the battalion——”
“You will take your place as formerly, Major Ruddy.”
“Oh, thank you!” And now the youthful major’s face fairly beamed.
“I will attend to this matter so far as it concerns Mr. Crabtree,” went on the master of the Hall. “You may go.”
“Thank you!” cried both cadets, and ran off with hearts as light as air.