Tom Slade with the Colors

on had lingered with him all day, and now he was going to give himself the pleasure of walking

ere was not much to be said for Roscoe; that he could do many things which Roscoe couldn't begin to do; but Roscoe on the other hand could do all those l

ied this sprightly youth who had become so much of a celebrity in his thoughts that he actually took a certain

Roscoe, with his fine airs, nor Roscoe's home would have had any attractions for Roy at all. But then Roy's father

ler's got to be interested in a camp like that. If he only went there once, he'd see what it was like and he'd fall for it, all right. I

sudden interest, and he believed

elf, "and make that climb, I bet he'd knock off his cigarettes. If he thou

oticed as he approached because its lights were out. Not even the little red light which should have illuminated the car

from him. He was rather surprised, and perhaps a little curious, for he knew that the Bents did not keep a car, and

nor a sound made; there was not even the familiar and usual bang of the automobile door. But a certain characteristic swing of the person with the luggage, as he passed one bag and then th

If he was going on a vacation or anything like that, he'd have said so this morning-

he sat up in his room for a while working with a kind of sullen resignation

ept recurring again and again, and which ended by cheating him out of his night's sleep. Why should Roscoe Bent be leavi

follow it. Why had the lights of the automobile been out? Why had there been no lights in the house? Why had no one come out on the p

to go to sleep, and perhaps he had closed the door quietly because he wished

not go to sleep, and he la

ow suspicious and ungenerous he was, when another question occurred

llison that it was better to be

aying. Miss Ellison had not seemed to think it was very funny, but that had only made Roscoe laugh the more. "I'd rather kil

. He made up his mind that when Roscoe came upstairs in the morning he would ask him whether the Germans weren't cowards to murder innocent women

could be sure that Roscoe ... so that he

eepy after being out