CHAPTER XVIII
THE WHOLE CLASS TAKES A HAND
"Then, Mr. Darrin, you admit the use of impertinent language to
Mr. Clairy, when the midshipman was in charge of the floor?"
This question was put to Dave, the following morning, by the commandant of midshipmen.
"It would have been an impertinence, sir, under ordinary conditions," Darrin answered. "Under the circumstances I believed, sir, that I had been provoked into righteous anger."
"You still assert that Mr. Clairy's charge that your shoes were unlaced when you approached him was false?"
"Absolutely false, sir."
"Do you wish any time to reflect over that answer, Mr. Darrin?"
"No, sir."
"You are willing your answer should go on record, then?"