FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   58   59   60   61   62   63   64   65   66   67   68   69   70   71   72   73   74   75   76   77   78   79   80   81   82  
83   84   85   86   87   88   89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   >>   >|  
alk about and stretch our legs, look in at a few store windows and make a few trifling purchases that won't exhaust our small store of pocket money." "Exciting prospect!" remarked Joyce. "Well, what ails you?" demanded Dalzell with unusual quietness. "What do you want to do? Something that will get us into big trouble with the O.C. and the com.?" "Joyce can't tell you what he longs for, for he doesn't know himself," explained Dave. "But I know. He wants to do something irregular; anything that is slightly in breach of the regulations--something that will get him hauled up before the O.C. and the pap." "You're a wonderful guesser," laughed Joyce. "Well, I'll admit that I'm simply restless, and that anything that will stir my blood and my liver will fill the bill. I'm afraid I'm so depraved to-night that even a street-fight wouldn't go against the grain." "You'd better forget it," advised Darrin quietly. "It's a dangerous frame of mind for a future officer and gentleman, who must acquire control over himself before he can be fit to command men." "You talk like a padre!" (chaplain) uttered Joyce in disgust "Can't you forget, for one evening, that you're a midshipman?" "No; I don't want to," Dave returned quietly. "Prig!" uttered Joyce again, and this time he did not take the pains to speak under his breath. But Darrin only smiled indulgently. By way of simple dissipation the three midshipmen went to a drug store, enjoying themselves with ice cream sodas. Soon after they found themselves in a Main Street bookstore, looking over post cards. They could, however, find no new ones, and so left without buying. "And there's the theatre right over there!" sighed Joyce. "It would be against our word as midshipmen and gentlemen to visit it," Dave urged. "Come on, Joyce; we'll turn into one of the very quiet side streets and stroll along. Then we'll be out of temptation." Accordingly they went to one of the all but deserted side streets of the better sort. "There's a comrade ahead of us," said Dave in an undertone presently, as he made out the uniform half a block away. Hardly had he spoken when a door opened and a young man in evening clothes came lightly down the steps. At once the unknown midshipman wheeled and sprang at the young civilian. There was a swift interchange of blows, over almost as soon as it started, for the unknown midshipman speedily knocked down the man he had assaulted. Nor did th
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   58   59   60   61   62   63   64   65   66   67   68   69   70   71   72   73   74   75   76   77   78   79   80   81   82  
83   84   85   86   87   88   89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

midshipman

 

streets

 

evening

 

Darrin

 

uttered

 
quietly
 

midshipmen

 

unknown

 

forget

 
knocked

buying

 
speedily
 

theatre

 

sighed

 

Street

 

dissipation

 

enjoying

 

bookstore

 

assaulted

 

spoken


Hardly

 

started

 

interchange

 

opened

 

sprang

 

wheeled

 

lightly

 

civilian

 

clothes

 

uniform


stroll

 
temptation
 

Accordingly

 

undertone

 

presently

 
comrade
 

deserted

 

simple

 

gentlemen

 

irregular


slightly

 

breach

 

explained

 

regulations

 

simply

 

restless

 
laughed
 

guesser

 

hauled

 

wonderful