Then came the Saturday before examination. Dave Darrin, released after dinner, would gladly have hurried away from the Academy grounds to visit his sweetheart in town, but Belle willed it otherwise.
"These are your last days here, Dave," whispered Belle, as she and her handsome midshipman strolled about. "If I'm to share your life with you, I may as well begin by sharing the Naval Academy with you to-day."
"Shall we go over to the field and watch the ball game when it starts?" Darrin asked.
"Not unless you very especially wish to," Miss Meade replied. "I'd rather have you to myself than to share your attention with a ball game."
So, though Midshipman Dave was interested in the outcome of the game, he decided to wait for the score when it had been made.
"Where's Dan to-day?" Belle inquired.
"Over at the ball game."
"Alone?"
"No; the brigade is with him, or he's with the brigade," laughed
Darrin.
"Then he's not there with a girl?"