“It sure is!” declared his twin emphatically. “I’ll wager he wanted to go to the front just as much as anybody.”
“Why, of course he did,” answered Jack readily.
“Uncle Tom is just as brave as anybody! We all know that!” burst out Fred. “It was only that somebody had to stay in New York and take care of The Rover Company.”
“Of course our dad was never as much of a soldier as your fathers,” continued Randy. “He never became an officer at Putnam Hall. Just the same, I’ll wager he’d like to have a chance to put one over on the Huns.”
By this time the other cadets had come from their various hiding places and were listening with much interest to what was being said.
“It certainly is great news!” declared Gif Garrison. “I wonder if my dad will want to go, too?” He knew that his parent and the older Rovers had been great chums.
“They leave us to break the news to Mary and Martha,” said Fred. “That isn’t going to be a very nice job. I’m afraid the poor girls will be all broke up.”
“I can’t see it that way,” answered Jack. “They ought to feel proud to think our fathers are brave enough to volunteer.”
“The telegram says that Colonel Colby will tell you more about this,” said Randy. “Why don’t you go over and interview him?”
“Maybe he has gone to bed,” suggested Spouter.