CHAPTER VI. - WHAT MARK OVERHEARD."Now, captain, there are no two ways about it, this businesshas got to stop, and stop right where it is."
The speaker was Colonel Harvey, superintendent of the West Point Military Academy. He was sitting in the guardhouse tent of the camp and talking to Captain Quincey.
"Yes," he repeated, slapping his leg for emphasis, "it's got to stop."
"I quite agree with you, colonel," responded the other, deprecatingly. "Quite. But the only question is to find out the offenders."
"If the offenders are not found out," cried the other, "I shall punish the whole class until theyconfess. Discipline shall not be laughed at while I am in command of this academy. And that is just exactly what that matter amounts to."
"It certainly does seem," admitted the other, "that
