"There may be differences, sometimes, between classmates, but there isn't a midshipman in the Navy who would deliberately try to drown a comrade.

It's a preposterous insult against midshipman honor.

If I hear any one make a charge like that, I'll call him out promptly." "Some of your friends--I won't name them--insisted, or at least let me feel the force of their suspicions." "If any of my friends hinted at such a thing, it was done in the heat of the moment," replied Dave heartily.

"Why, Mr.Pennington, such an act of dishonor is impossible to a man bred at Annapolis." Darrin fully believed what he said.

On the spur of the moment he held out his hand to his enemy.
Pennington flushed deeply, for a moment, then put out his own hand, giving Dave's a hearty, straightforward grasp.
"I was the first to imply the charge," broke in Farley quickly.