Then the corps yell was called for and given, with his name added. Some of the cadets slipped in through the sally-port, sooner than join in the demonstration.
"Thank you all—-it's jolly good of you!" cried Prescott huskily.
As soon as these comrades in arms would let him, he broke through and made for his room.
"Hooray!" yelled Greg, turning loose.
And Cadet Anstey thrust his head into the room long enough to add:
"Hooray!"
But Dick, half stripped above the waist, was at the washstand, making a thorough toilet, though a hurried one.
Greg waited, his eyes shining.
"It's mighty good of you all," cried Dick, as he was pulling on his cadet overcoat. "I wish I could stop and talk about it—-but there a duties that can't be hurried fast enough."
"Give my regards," called Holmes jovially after Prescott.