Again and again they sent up the rousing corps yell for Prescott and Holmes, with Brayton's name added.
Turnback Haynes, finding no one to listen to him now, in anything he might have to say against Prescott, turned to stare at the heaving lines of gray.
To himself, Haynes muttered curiously:
"Humph!"
That one word did not, however, do justice to Haynes's frame of mind.
He was wild with jealousy and hatred, but dared not show it.
That fellow Prescott will have his head fearfully swelled and be more unbearable than ever! growled Haynes to himself. Confound him, he has no business at all in the Army! Why should he be?
Then, after a pause, a cunning look crept slowly into the eyes of the turnback, as he throbbed under his breath:
If I can have anything to do with it, he wont be much longer in the Army!
For just a moment, ere the teams left the field, the old Gridley chums had a chance to rush over to each other.
"I was afraid of you, Dick," Dave confessed. "Not more than I was of you, Dave, laughed Prescott."