Bert Dodge did try to go home to see his Mother, but, by his father's orders, he was put out of the house by two men servants.
Immediately after that Bert vanished from Gridley. At first he tried the effect of writing whining, penitent, begging letters home. Receiving no replies, Bert finally drifted off into the space of the wide world.
Later on in the course of these chronicles he may reappear.
Lawyer Griffin consulted with the district attorney, and it was decided not to make perjury cases out of the affair. Fessenden, Bettrick and Deevers, however, were all three warned and the district attorney filed away the lying affidavits, in case a use for them should ever come up.
By degrees the story of Bert Dodge's latest infamy leaked out. The news, however, did not come through any word spread by either of our young West Pointers.
CHAPTER IX
BACK TO THE GOOD, GRAY LIFE
A Glorious summer it was for the two second classman on furlough!
Yet, like all other things, good and otherwise, it had to come to an end.
One morning near the end of August, Dick and Greg, attended by a numerous concourse of friends, went to the railway station.