CONCLUSION By the next day it was generally conceded among the midshipmen that the ranks of the brigade were about to be thinned as a result of the last hazing episode.

Nor did the third class generally uphold Eaton and his youngster associates in the affair of the night before.
"They were out for trouble, and they got it," declared one third classman.

"The rest of us let up on all hazing before Christmas." In some underground way Farley and Page heard the straight story concerning Dave and Dan; how the two upper classmen had gone to the room and Darrin had entered a mild protest against the hazing.
Though it was against regulations to visit them confined to their quarters, Farley took the chance and got a few words with Dave.
"Darry, don't let anyone trim you for what you didn't do," begged Midshipman Farley.

"Go straight to the com.; tell him that you and Dan had just entered the room to see what was going on, and that you had just made a protest against the hazing." "Nothing doing there, Farl," Dave gently assured his friend.

"We were present and we really had no business to be.