At the same time, Mr.Darrin, I desire to thank you for your manliness and attention to duty in entering a protest against the hazing." "I thank you very much, sir," Dave Darrin answered.

"However, much as I long to remain in the Navy, I do not want to hide behind a misunderstanding.

While I spoke against the hazing, candor compels me to admit that I did not protest so vigorously but that more hazing went on immediately." "That I can quite understand," nodded the superintendent.

"I am aware of the disinclination of the members of one upper class to interfere with the members of another upper class.

The fact that you made a protest at all is what has convinced me that yourself and Mr.Dalzell were in the room at the time with a worthy instead of an unworthy motive.