POSTSCRIPT
When the next commencement swung around Fred Ripley, who had managed
to "go straight" all through his senior year, was among those
graduated. What became of him will yet be learned by our readers
in another volume.
There are a host of other Gridley fellows also to be accounted
for.
Their part in the subsequent history of Gridley, and of the world
in general, will also yet be told, all in the proper place.
"Prin.," too, may yet come in for some attention.
Dick & Co. did not take part in basket ball nor any of the organized
winter athletics though they kept constantly in training. But
these young men realized that the High School is, first of all,
a place for academic training; so, after the football season had
ended so gloriously, they went back to their books with renewed
vigor.
Laura and Belle, as they neared the end of their junior year,
went almost from girlhood into womanhood, as is the way with girls.
Yet neither Miss Meade nor Miss Bentley found Dick or Dave "too
young" for their frank, girlish admiration.
"You see, Dick, that we were quite right about you and Dave having
all the grit that goes with the highest needs of the military
profession," Laura remarked. "Your conduct at the fire shows
the stuff that would be displayed by Dick & Co. in leading a charge
in battle, if need be."
"I guess a reasonable amount of courage, under stress, is the
possession of nearly all members of the human race," laughed young
Prescott.
Here we shall leave our Gridley friends for a short time. We
shall meet them all again, however, in the forthcoming and final
volume of this series, which will be published under the title:
"_The High School Captain of the Team; Or, Dick & Co. Leading
the Athletic Vanguard_."
In this new volume we shall see more of the boys' qualities in
leadership.
Before we meet our popular boys in high school again the reader
will find the long succession of wonderful events of their summer
vacation following their junior year in the last two volumes of
the "_High School Boys' Vacation Series_", which are published
under the titles, "_The High School Boys' Fishing Trip; Or, Dick
& Co. in the Wilderness_," and "_The High School Boys Training
Hike; Or, Making Themselves 'Hard as Nails.'_"
These two narratives of a real vacation of real American boys
are bound to please the many friends of Dick & Co. Be sure to
read them.
THE END
End of Project Gutenberg's The High School Left End, by H. Irving Hancock