of reporting his fellow classmen for what they may consider
insufficient breaches of discipline.

The "cut" or "Coventry" is reserved for the cadet whom it is intended
to drive from the Army altogether. If a man at West Point is
"sent to Coventry" by the whole corps, or as a result of class
action, he will never be able to form friendships in the Army
again, no matter how long he remains in the Army, or how hard he
tries to fight the sentence down.

Cadet Jordan, as will have been noted, professed to be satisfied
if the class voted a week's "silence" to Dick Prescott, for Jordan
believed that by this time the tantalized young cadet captain
could be provoked into actions that would bring the imposition
of the "long silence" of permanent Coventry.

At the end of the busy cadet day, when the two cadet battalions
stood in formal array at dress parade, Cadet Adjutant Filson published
the day's orders.

One of these orders mentioned Jordan's confinement to the company
street, and added the further infliction of "punishment tours" to
be walked every Wednesday and Saturday afternoons.

"Oh, well," thought the culprit, savagely, "as I walk I can plan
newer and newer things. I'll go into the Army, and you, Prescott,
may become a freight clerk on a jerk-water railroad."

Unknown to either Jordan or Prescott at that moment, other
storm-clouds were gathering swiftly over the head of the popular