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`` Do n't you worry about that , '' answered Ruth . `` We 're going to ask Miss Garwood for a special recess in honor of the occasion . '' The evening was spent by the boys in packing their things and in otherwise getting ready for the encampment . There was , however , the usual song service at eight o'clock in the assembly room of the Hall , on this occasion presided over by a minister who had stopped at the Hall to visit his two nephews , who were pupils there . The minister was a good speaker , and he made an address which the cadets listened to with close attention . Early in the morning came a sound that told all the cadets that the annual encampment was now at hand . Instead of the school bell ringing , there were the notes of two bugles ringing through the corridors .