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Rapidly he wrote his comment on Darrin's report, signed his own report, and then leaned back, thinking hard. "I'll do it!" he muttered, the sinister smile appearing again. Picking up his pen, He began to write a separate report, charging Ensign David Darrin with viciously knocking him down while on duty.
With the gauze he wiped the blood away from Darrin's cheek, revealing a surface cut of more width than depth. Then a light bandage was put on over the cut. "Now, I guess you can rise all right, Mr. Darrin. This hospital man will go over to hospital with you." "I'm not ordered to stay there, I hope, sir?" murmured Dave anxiously. "For two or three days, at any rate yes," replied the Naval surgeon.
Darrin's room this morning, did you then observe the signs of disorder which Lieutenant Nettleson subsequently discovered and reported?" "I did, sir, as to the bed. The washbowl I did not notice." "That will do, for the present, Mr. Henkel. Mr. Farley, will you now state just what you saw, while watching this forenoon?" "In the first place, sir," declared Farley, "as soon as Mr. Darrin and Mr.
In Darrin's eyes there was a strange flash as he turned down the "deck" on which he lived. But Dan, still absorbed in study, did not pay especial heed to his roommate. Immediately after supper in the mess-hall, Dalzell caught his chum's arm. "Let's get in early at the meeting, David, little giant. I'm afraid there's big trouble brewing, and we must both be on hand early.
Darrin's heart, for a few seconds, seemed almost to stop beating. For it was Brimmer himself! Further up in the town that midshipman had heard a fleeting word, uttered by some one, about a staggering midshipman having been seen going down Main Street. "A dollar to a doughnut it's Darrin himself! flashed exultantly through Brimmer's mind.
Darrin, you will simply have to brace! Give us all the best that's in you, and don't for one instant allow any personal disappointments to unfit you. You'll do that, won't you?" "Yes, sir." Darrin certainly tried hard enough. Yet just as certainly the Navy's boosters shook their heads when they watched Darrin's work on the field. "He has gone stale," they said.
The first volume in this series will be entitled: "Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis; Or, Two Plebes at the Naval Academy." Nor did Tom Reade and Harry Hazelton fail of some very extraordinary adventures in their chosen career of engineering. Their career led them into some of the wild spots of the earth. It will all be told in the Young Engineer series.
Henkel, did you arrange any or all of the disorder which Lieutenant Nettleson reported having found in Mr. Darrin's room?" "I did not, sir." Henkel's voice was clear, firm almost convincing. "Have you, at any time, committed any offense in Mr. Darrin's room, by tampering with his equipment or belongings, or with the furniture of the room?" "Never, sir," declared Midshipman Henkel positively.
"I can't state with accuracy, now, sir, just what Mr. Darrin did say to us." "Did he disapprove of your acts?" "Yes, sir. I am very certain that he made every third classman present feel uncomfortable." "Then whatever Mr. Darrin's words were, they had the effect, if not the exact form, of a rebuke against your conduct?" pressed the commandant.
Pennington reported to the battleship's commander. After some ten minutes a marine orderly found Hallam and directed him to go to Captain Scott's office. Here Hallam repeated as much as was asked of him concerning the doings of the afternoon. Incidentally, the fact of Midshipman Darrin's report to the police was brought out. "Mr.
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