Phil found himself alone with Helen only for the fraction of a minute, but in that time among other favors he had been given a certain gold locket that he valued more than any foreign decoration that might have been bestowed upon him.
Takishima and Captain Inaba met the party at the railroad station and escorted them to a special train, and as they pulled out from the long platform the midshipmen’s last glimpse was of their two friends, hats in hand above their heads, crying loudly “Banzai”—ten thousand years of happiness!
Other Stories in this Series are:
A U. S. MIDSHIPMAN AFLOAT
A U. S. MIDSHIPMAN IN CHINA
A U. S. MIDSHIPMAN IN THE PHILIPPINES
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Bushido to the code of chivalry in old Japan.
[2] The Japanese writing is backward from the end of a book or letter to the front.
[3] Japanese term for dock.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.