"You grinning idiot!" laughed Darrin. "What on earth made you bring him to me?"
"Because I thought you needed each other."
"Well, perhaps we did," laughed Midshipman Darrin. "At any rate I've been hammering at Farl all the time that he wasn't hammering at me. I certainly feel better, and I hope that he does."
"You both needed the same thing," declared Dan, grinning even more broadly as he picked up his hair brushes.
"What did we need?"
"You've both been studying so hard that your brain cells are clogged."
"But what did Farley and I both need?" insisted Midshipman Darrin.
"Mental exercise—-brain-sparring," rejoined Dalzell. "You both needed something that could take you out of the horrible daily grooves that you've been sailing in lately. You both needed something to stir you up—-and I hope you gave each other all the excitement you could."
In the way of a stirring-up something was about to happen that was going to stir up the whole first class—-if not the entire brigade.
Nor was Dave Darrin to escape being one of the central figures in the excitement.