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That unless Harold had an almost total lapse of memory when he was put through examinations he could not fail to enter Rifle Point . Of course cramming is not the best means of learning , and much of what Harold learned that summer he was bound to forget later , but Dick hoped that the forgetting would not come until he had passed examinations . Mrs. Townsend almost wept with joy and relief when Dick told her that he firmly believed they had succeeded in what had seemed not many weeks ago an impossible task , and her gratitude , or the expression of it , embarrassed Dick horribly . After he returned from the Point each day just in time for dinner at one o'clock Dick had two hours to himself . Or he had unless the indefatigable Mr. Potter broke in upon him to breathlessly announce progress or to present a problem to be solved . At four there was practice at the field . In the evenings Dick very often had to go over the next day 's lessons , a task more often than not interrupted by the visit of Gordon or Lanny or Fudge or , possibly , all three .