Poor girl, I'm afraid my letter may be even worse than no news." "Belle didn't betroth herself to the uniform or the Navy, if I know her," returned Dan quietly.
Dave went out and mailed the letter.

It would not reach Belle until Monday morning.

Wednesday afternoon, on returning from the last recitation, Dave found her answer on his study table.
"Want to hear a part of it, Dan ?" questioned Midshipman Darrin.
"Of course I do," admitted that young man.
"Listen, then," and Dave read from Belle's letter as follows: "'I won't attempt to say that I am not in the least worried or bothered over the turn the Jetson matter has taken,'" ran Belle's letter.

"'I can't help feeling vitally interested in anything that concerns you.

But you tell me that you have followed your own sense of honor and your own conscience in the matter.