Of course, if anything out of the usual should happen while Mr.Hastings were taking his trick in his berth, he would have to be wakened.

But we can often make as long a trip as from New York to Havana without needing to call Mr.Hastings once from his berth during his hours of rest." "Then you have two enlisted men aboard who thoroughly understand your engines ?" pressed Dave Darrin.
"Ordinarily," replied Hal Hastings, here breaking in.

"But one of our engine-tenders reached the end of his enlisted period to-day, and, as he wouldn't re-enlist, we had to let him go.

So the new enlisted man whom we took aboard is just starting in to learn his duties." "Small loss in Morton," laughed Lieutenant Jack Benson.

"He was enough of a natural genius around machinery, but he was a man of sulky and often violent temper.