"Then I guess we're dished," confessed Dalzell mournfully.
"A fine way for you two to go and use the football squad! Great!" insisted Hepson bitterly.
"Had you been with us, Hepson, you'd have done just as we did. I know that," Dave replied.
"Well, you are calling me a bit," agreed Hepson. "After all, I don't know just what it was that got you both into this scrape. Some kind of fight, or row, in town, was all I heard."
"Then I'll tell you about it," Darrin went on quietly.
"Well, I really don't see how you could have helped it," agreed
Midshipman Hepson after he had listened. "But that doesn't save us any.
We're out our two best line players and our quarter-back."
"Oh, we'll be restored to the squad as soon as the sentence has been pronounced," predicted Dan Dalzell.
"Even if you're bounced out of the Naval Academy?" demanded Hepson savagely.
"It—it won't be as bad as that," faltered Dan.
"Perhaps not," agreed Hepson, "though you must understand that the charge of assaulting civilians is not a light matter. You can be dismissed for it, you know."