Bobby Blake at Rockledge School; or, Winning the Medal of Honor

inton, as the train rolled away. Mr. Blake had his paper and a whole seat to himself.

until Monday. We'll have two whole days to get acquainted in. Do you s'p

y but the principal of the school knows we're coming, Fred. We'll

I don't want to be bossed,"

" advised his chum. "We'll have to

e why," gru

a boarding school when he was a bo

oys with whom they would be associated. At Cambwell several students got aboard and came into t

up front. Finally they spied the two boys f

be a leader in the fun. "There's a couple of kids who look as t

a low tone, and then he and the yellow-h

stocky and squinted his eyes up in a funny w

e," said Fr

dge or

ou please," said

whether it pleases us any to have you go to Rock

asked

window. We don't allow any Belden boys

ockledge boys' hats out of the wind

hey ain't. You sure you

and then find out whether we tell the tr

t Rockledge," warned the yellow-haired boy. "I

rningly, and both the

hair, anyway-did you, Bill?" sugg

he yellow-haired boy. "What color do you p

nded Fred, promptly, and with a meaning glance at his

kled. Fred stared back at him quite boldly, for the

range boy, scowling and squinting at the same time. He

n Bill, and

Somebody entered the front door of the car, and at once t

Bar

in with the tide

, Barr

Captain! H

w a handsome, brown haired fellow coming down the aisle. He was fourteen or

g hands. Everybody seemed glad to see him. As he quickly glanced d

in, of course," grow

Feels h

handsome fellow, whose name seemed to be Ba

said, with some sharpness.

s, Barry, what Jack and I do,"

said Barry Gray, laughing. Then he

to Rockledge thi

" said Bob

n, and perhaps not as old, but he evident

are you

onounced Bobby, ag

e-and your chum'

e, and this is Fred

ing hands with both of them, and even Fred b

school before?

ding school,

ay, grinning at the two retiring bullies. "If they bother you much, come to me. I'm captain of the school this year, a

sir," sa

so much," said the kindl

father. Barry at once saw that Mr. B

ob? Your fathe

ther," said Bo

you, Mr. Blake," he said. "You trust the boys with me. I'll see that they g

l feel better about leaving Bobby and Fred at Rock

l conceit, seemed a very nice fellow. "Of course, they'll have to take a fe

. "I guess we can ta

"Yes, I see you own red hair," he ob

step. He felt his own importance considerably, and he did not see why h

iendly than Bill Bronson and Jack Jinks, who the chums learned later, were two of

s Bobby and Fred, but none of them were

"Pee Wee" because of his initials and his size. "Every fellow has to, that comes to

ne," said Bobby,

resh, I guess,

as a right to boss us. The Doctor lets him. Next to the teachers, Ba

of some importance himself, and he had never been used t

ad little time to worry about Barry Gray. The chums found the time passing so quickly that th

ak-shaded streets, great bowlders thrusting their heads out of the vacant

igh Street, which turned off at the shore of the lake

line and crossed the railroad, finally bringing u

eper's cottage where all of the outside servants slept. It had once been a fine priv

ding of the school by a long, roofed portico. This last building was of brick and sandstone, and held clas

twenty boys, and five small dormitories for two boys each. The ten highest scholars o

rs slept in this

, and a large campus on which were a baseball diamond, a footb

ch but the fact that the place seemed large, and that there positively was an immense number of b

oned man, wearing very loose garments and a collar a full size too large. The big doctor had bushy side-whisker

fashion. When he shook hands with Bobby and Fred, some magnetic feeling passed from the b

men walked toward the big windows at the end of the room, leaving Bobby and F

replace broke into the bookshelves on one side. There was a very large flat-topped desk, too, seve

ke, with a chuckle. "But I don't think there is a mean trait in either of them. My boy has had, we thi

elves in the matter of deportment. The bigger boys are supposed to set the standard of moral

oy who earns it, a gold medal stating that for the past year he has shown hims

gh no boy who is not gentlemanly and of manly bearing and action, can win it. The medal is not given for mere popularity, for a boy m

hlete-which latter tells mightily among the boys themselves, you know. Yet my teachers and myself, as well as th

Blake came to bid Bobby and Fred good-by. He shook ha

re you, Master Fred," he said. "I expect your father and m

ty in "holding in." His father was going away-and going to a far countr

say to me, Bobs?" ask

before you go, Pa!" and he flung his arms around M

ctor looking at him curiously. Just the same, Bobby Blake was glad-oh, how glad!-ma