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Wondering until they were fairly agape, Ulwin, Hal and Eph drew up at the cab door as Jack, after only a brief nod to them, opened the door and handed out Miss Daisy Huston. Lieutenant Abercrombie, having given his horse to a boy down the street to hold, now came forward, raising his hat, to take charge of the young lady.
"Oh, I'm not asking it, you know, old fellow," Lieutenant Abercrombie assured him. "Is Mr. Benson here?" called a bell-boy, from the doorway. "Very much so," replied Lieutenant Ulwin, dryly. "May I give you a message, sir?" asked the bell-boy, coming closer. After excusing himself, Benson stepped aside with the boy. Yet the latter spoke loudly enough for several to overhear.
Just as the little procession turned a street corner to drive direct to the door of police headquarters, Abercrombie waved a hand carelessly to three pedestrians on the sidewalk. "Abercrombie!" cried Lieutenant Ulwin. "And there's Benson on the box of that hack!" "Come right along into headquarters," whispered Abercrombie. "Don't make any noise."
Can you look, just for a moment, the way you did when that blue-coat pinched you?" Hal began to laugh, despite the fact that his loss of Millard still rankled under his quiet outside. "Now, hush up," warned Benson, suddenly. "Here comes Lieutenant Ulwin, who has undertaken to present us at the United Service Club. Idiots are barred from the club, you know, Eph."
"It will be dark, soon," interposed Lieutenant Ulwin. "I suggest that the best thing any of us can do is to turn toward the club. I feel certain that the chef will have a famous dinner there to-night." "We haven't any evening clothes, either citizen or uniform, in Washington," interposed Jack Benson, who knew something of the formalities of the service during the dinner hour.
The two comrades now caught up with Ulwin and Hal at the elevator. "We'll go up to the reading room, first," proposed Lieutenant Ulwin. "That's where the afternoon crowd is usually found." Anyone who had been looking for "color" or pomp would have been disappointed. The only uniforms in sight were those worn by two bell boys. The officers of the Army and Navy present were all in citizen dress.
A score of officers, young or middle-aged, were crowding about. Ulwin had his hands full introducing the submarine boys. Yet they stood the ordeal well. The habit of command, based on discipline, had given these boys plenty of poise and self-possession. Nor were any attempts made, at that time, to have any good-humored fun with them. Half a dozen officers representing foreign navies were present.
They looked like a lot of cheerful, prosperous business men. "Hullo, Ulwin, what are you doing with my friends from Dunhaven?" eagerly called one young man, rising hastily and coming forward. "Benson, I'm glad to see you. And you, Hastings. And you, Somers." "Didn't know you knew the young gentlemen, McCrea," broke in Ulwin. "Don't know them?
"You can answer back, if anyone starts to have any fun with you," replied Lieutenant Ulwin. "Remember, a club is where all men stand on an equal footing. If an admiral gets after you, you will do well to swallow any witticism he may try on you. But with any officer below an admiral you don't have to be so careful." Eph Somers immediately began to look thoughtful.
"Oh, Herr Ulwin," he asked, "can you oblige me by excusing Herr Benson for a moment or two? And will you come with me, Herr Benson, to meet a friend who wishes to shake your hand?" Jack slipped away with the German officer, who conducted him to another room. "I think you have met my friend before," explained the German, and wheeled the submarine boy straight up in front of Herr Professor Radberg.
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