Dick tore open the yellow envelope. He read the message at a glance and seemed to start as at the receipt of unwelcome news.
"I've got to go out for a while," he said to his chums. "I'll be back as soon as possible. This is important."
"But your football plan," begged Innis.
"I'll tell it when I come back," called Dick Hamilton as he hurried out, leaving a much-wondering group of cadets looking after him.
CHAPTER II
WAR ON MR. HAMILTON
"The rumor is true then," mused Dick, as he hurried out of the chapter house, and started toward the telegraph office. "I rather hoped it would prove to be only a rumor, but if dad has heard it also, there must be something in it. Now I wonder if I can get hold of any more news, so I can wire him? Let's see, what is it he says."
Dick glanced again at the telegram that had been brought to him. It was from his father, Mortimer Hamilton, a multi-millionaire, and was in answer to a message the youth had sent his parent that day.