duty-mad

Updated: May 27, 2025

That officer, Lieutenant Willow, U.S. Navy, listened with a good deal of interest. Mr. Willow was one of those officers who are known as duty-mad. He gathered that there had been a fight, so he deemed it his duty to report the fact at once to the discipline officer in charge over at Bancroft Hall.

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"Willow," he muttered, "I'm half inclined to believe that you've come to me to make an official report." "I guess I have," nodded Lieutenant Willow. "And against some unfortunate midshipman, at that!" "Against two, at least," sighed Mr. Willow, "and there were others involved in the affair." "It must be something fearful," said Mr. Stearns, who knew the junior officer's inclination to be duty-mad.

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"I'm afraid we did sometimes," admitted the junior officer. "But duty is duty, you know, my dear Stearns. And this was an unusual fight, too. The man who was whipped insisted on another fight right then and there, and he won the second fight." "Bully!" chuckled the officer in charge. "Whew, but I wish I had been there!" "Stearns, you surely don't mean that?" gasped duty-mad Mr. Willow.

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Oh, say, what a fellow misses by being cooped up in an office like this!" "But but the breach of regulations!" stammered the duty-mad lieutenant. "My dear fellow, neither you nor I know anything about this fight officially. The Navy, after all, is a fighting machine. Do you feel that the Navy can afford to lose a fighting man like that youngster?"

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