of the fellows who enter the Naval Academy are found deficient and are dropped.

If you are interested in knowing, I had a fearful time in keeping up with the requirements." "Oh, you poor boy!" cried Miss Atterly half tenderly.
"I never felt that I wanted any sympathy," Dan declared stoutly.
"If I couldn't keep up, then the only thing to do was to go back to civil life and find my own level among my own kind." "Now, that was truly brave in you!" declared Miss Atterly, admiration shining in her eyes.
"There's the music starting," Dan hastily reminded her.

"Our dance." "Would it seem disagreeable in me if I asked you to sit out this number with me ?" inquired the girl.

"The truth is, I can dance any evening, but you and your brave fight here, Mr.Dalzell, interest me---oh, more than I can tell you!" Under this line of conversation Midshipman Dalzell soon began to feel highly uncomfortable.

Miss Atterly, however, in getting Dan to talk of the midshipman and the Naval life, soon had him feeling at his ease.