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It was the chair who first recovered his poise. "Clairy insane!" cried the class president. "Gentlemen, now we comprehend what, before, it was impossible to understand." In the face of this sudden blow to a classmate all the midshipmen sat for a few minutes more as if stunned. Then they began to glance about at each other.

Clairy thrust his novel under a little pile of text-books. "Well, sir?" inquired Dave, halting. "Mr. Darrin, what do you mean by coming down the corridor with both shoes unlaced." "They are not unlaced," retorted Dave, staring in amazement at Midshipman Clairy. "They are not now -true." "And they haven't been unlaced, sir, since I first laced them on rising this morning."

An angry clamor rose, followed by calls of, "Question! Put the motion!" "Do any of you know," Darrin continued, "why Mr. Clairy is not here this evening?" "He's afraid to come!" "Did any of you note that Mr. Clairy was not at supper?" "The hound hadn't any appetite," jeered Fenwick angrily. "You have observed, of course, that Mr. Clairy was not here at the meeting?"

"Why, Davy, the fellow went for you in fearful shape. He insulted you outrageously." "I know he did," Darrin responded. "That's why I believe in going slowly in the matter." "Why on earth -why?" "Clairy must have had some motive behind his attack," Dave urged. "It couldn't have been a good motive, anyway," broke in another midshipman hotly.

"I was making believe to march straight by the fellow's desk," resumed Dan, "when Clairy brought me up sharply. Told me to frap the pap for strolling with my hands in my pockets. I didn't do anything like that." In another hour indignation was running riot in that division.

You will also place yourself on report for impertinence in answering the midshipman in charge of the floor." "But " "Go at once, sir, and place yourself on report" Dave meditated, for two or three seconds, over the advisability of knocking Mr. Clairy down. But familiarity with the military discipline of the Naval Academy immediately showed Darrin that his only present course was to obey.

He replied, in each case, with a cool, smiling refusal. "We've got to hold that class meeting!" growled Farley. "Why?" inquired Dave. "The class can't do anything more to Clairy than has already been done. His refusals to fight will send him to Coventry as securely as could action by all four of the classes.

"You are willing your answer should go on record, then?" "My denial of the charge of having my shoes unlaced is the only answer that I can possibly make, sir." The commandant reflected. Then he directed that Midshipman Clairy be ordered to report to him. Clairy came, almost immediately. The commandant questioned him closely.

"I do not know what to say," the officer admitted at last. "I will take the matter under advisement. You may both go." Outside, well away from the office, Dave Darrin halted, swinging and confronting Clairy sternly. "You lying scoundrel!" vibrated Darrin, his voice shaking with anger. "It constitutes another offense, Mr.

Clairy had been lying. But his charges relate to eight different delinquencies, and not one of the eight accused midshipmen is in a position to act as witness for any of the other accused men." "Then what are we going to do, sir?" "I will admit that I do not yet know," replied the superintendent. "Some method of getting at the truth in the matter is likely to occur to us later on.

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