"If I did," retorted John, "you can rest easy that I wouldn't let
go of it."

"How soon do we come to West Point?" inquired Grant.

"In about an hour," answered Fred.

"Do you know, I sometimes think I should like to go there," said
George.

"Couldn't be done, my son," spoke up John.

"Why can't it be done?"

"Because a fellow that enters West Point has to pass an
examination."

"Don't you think I could pass it?" demanded George as his friends
laughed.

"It depends on what it is," answered John.

"If they would examine you about the old Meeker House and running
tin tubes from the kitchen into the front room and a few other
things like that maybe you would pass."[4]

[4] See "The Go Ahead Boys and the Mysterious Old House."

"That's all right," spoke up George promptly. "I know something