"Would you have told the truth, if he had questioned you searchingly, and pinned you right down?" demanded Eph Somers.
"Of course I would," Jack replied, soberly. "I'm no liar. But I feel deeply grateful to that officer for not being keener."
Before nine o'clock the next morning news of the night's doings back of barracks had spread through the entire corps of cadet midshipmen.
With these young men of the Navy there was but one opinion of the submarine boys—that they were trumps, wholly of the right sort.
As a result, Jack, Hal and Eph had hundreds of new friends among those who will officer the Navy of the morrow.
Not so bad, even just as a stroke of business!
CHAPTER XIII
READY FOR THE SEA CRUISE
For the next ten days things moved along without much excitement for the submarine boys.
During that time they had an average of four sections a day of cadet midshipmen to instruct in the workings of the Pollard type of submarine torpedo boat.