TOM TAYLOR AT WEST POINT

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CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
[I.]Wonderful News [1]
[II.]The Examination [13]
[III.]Anxious Days [21]
[IV.]Success [29]
[V.]An Attack [35]
[VI.]Off to West Point [43]
[VII.]Getting Ready [49]
[VIII.]A Slide for Life [60]
[IX.]Captain Hawkesbury [69]
[X.]Anticipation [76]
[XI.]A Lark [83]
[XII.]Tom’s Refusal [91]
[XIII.]Across the River [97]
[XIV.]An Explosion [103]
[XV.]Hard Work [110]
[XVI.]On Furlough [118]
[XVII.]A Quarrel [127]
[XVIII.]Back at West Point [138]
[XIX.]Unhorsed [146]
[XX.]In the Hospital [155]
[XXI.]The Clue [164]
[XXII.]In Garrison [174]
[XXIII.]Discovered [182]
[XXIV.]Restitution [190]
[XXV.]Graduation [199]

TOM TAYLOR AT WEST POINT

CHAPTER I
WONDERFUL NEWS

Tom Taylor, a well set up, pleasant-faced lad of about sixteen, came marching up the path that led from the street to the front door of the cottage. Tom was whistling a cheerful air; no—one moment—the tune was cheerful enough, but Tom Taylor was whistling it in anything but a gay manner.

Something in the way that he trilled out the notes must have impressed his mother, for she looked up quickly, and out of the open window near which she was sewing.

“Why, Tom!” she exclaimed, “you’re home early; aren’t you? I hope——”