"You're not safe without a guardian! You'll do it again, between now and graduation." "You can watch me, if you want, then; but I'll fool you," smiled Dan.

"But say, Dave!" "Well ?" "You don't suppose Belle will say anything about this back in Gridley, do you?
By Jove, if she does I'd feel----- "You'll feel something else," warned Dave snappily, "if you don't at once assure me that you know Belle too well to think that she'd make light of your misfortunes." "But sometimes girls tell one another some things-----" "Belle Meade doesn't," interrupted Dave so briskly that Dalzell, after a glance, agreed: "You're right there, David, little giant.

I've known Belle ever since we were kids at the Central Grammar School.

If Belle ever got into any trouble through too free use of her tongue, then I never heard anything about it." "Dan, do you want a fine suggestion about the employment of the rest of your liberty time while we're at Annapolis ?" "Yes." "You remember Barnes's General History, that we used to have in Grammar school ?" "Yes." "Devote your liberty time to reading the book through again.".