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"I have never been conceited enough to fancy that my friendship was worth having." "Let yourself out and be natural, man!" "How?" Then indeed did Dave Darrin plunge into his subject. There was a lot to be said, but Dave said it briefly, tersely, candidly. Jetson listened with a flushing face, it is true, but at last he stopped and held out his hand. "Will you take it, Darrin?"
Midshipman Clairy had ordered no less than eight first classmen to put themselves on report for offenses that none of them would admit having committed. Oh, but there was wrath boiling in the quarters occupied by those eight first classmen. "Did Clairy wet you, Farley?" demanded Darrin. "No; I haven't been out of my room until just now." Dan was a victim, too."
"Yes," replied Dave incisively. "Now, the question is, what can be done about it?" "I wish you had asked me an easier one," sighed the first classman. "You're mighty well liked, all through the Academy, Dalzell, and every one of us will hate to see you go." "But what can be done to ward off that fate?" insisted Darrin as impatiently as a third classman might speak to a venerable first classman.
In truth Dan had been victor in many a hard-fought schoolboy disagreement, as readers of the High School Boys Series are aware. As the young men in question drew nearer they eyed Darrin and Dalzell with a disapproval that was not wholly concealed. The truth was that Dave and Dan were recognized as not being boys who had studied at one of the Naval prep. schools in Annapolis.
As Pen leaped to his feet after the last turn, one of his hands struck Darrin forcefully. Dave swayed, tried to clutch at something, then "O-o-o-oh!" rang the first startled chorus. Then, instantly, on top of it, came the rousing hail: "Man overboard astern!" Farley and Hallam were the first to reach the rail. But Lieutenant Burton was there almost as quickly.
Dodge has his own reasons for wanting people to think him dead. He has sloped away. Here's the track. Which way did he and the fellows go?" "Away from Gridley," declared Darrin, sagely. "Otherwise, Mr. Dodge would have been seen by some one who would remember him." "We'll go up along the track, then." This they did, but the roadbed was hard.
Sixty feet away, however, they halted, wheeling about. Garwood, seeing the boys run, acted as though he would give them no further thought. He was already walking in the opposite direction, his back turned to them. "Ugh! He gives me cold chills," cried Darrin.
"I say, fellows, I wonder if we can let Tip go -now that we know the whole story?" breathed Dick. "Say, I'll make it worth yer while," proposed Tip, eagerly. "How about the law?" asked Dave Darrin, seriously. "Have we any right to let the fellow go, when we know he has committed a serious crime?" "I don't know," replied Prescott. "All I'm thinking of is good, honest old John Scammon."
"Yes, sir," replied Midshipman Eaton with great positiveness. Eaton's companions in the hazing all bore him out in the statement. The commandant of midshipmen then took up the matter of their testimony with the superintendent of the Naval Academy. After six days of confinement to quarters, Darrin and Dalzell were ordered to report before the commandant.
Morton, "we'll go home and see whether we can engender the idea of eating any lunch, after this unmasking of villainy in our own crowd. But at half past two promptly to the minute, meet me at the High School. Remember, we've practice on for half past three." "Of all the mean, contemptible " began Darrin, after the submaster had left them. "Stop right there, Dave!" begged his chum.
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