“Why, of course! And he certainly looked every inch a captain.”
“I wish I were a boy and could go along!” sighed Mary.
“Oh, I guess we all wish that,” declared Ruth. “But come—let us give them another cheer!” And this rent the air just as the cadets reached a turn in the road and passed out of sight.
CHAPTER XVII
A NIGHT ON THE ROAD
“This is the life, boys!”
“Ho for a life under canvas!”
“Beats rooming in a school all hollow, doesn’t it?”