Then the chums continued across to Bancroft Hall.
Midshipman Brimmer was reported absent, but accounted for, at that supper formation.

At that moment Brimmer was undergoing a Naval surgeon's treatment for his eye.

Brimmer's brief explanation to the surgeon was that he had run his face against something hard in a dark alleyway while in town.

The surgeon noted down the explanation, smiling grimly.
That being Saturday evening, with release from studies, Dave slipped down to the door of Farley and Page, and invited them to his quarters.
There sat Dan.
Both Farley and Page listened almost in stupefaction.

They had always rather liked Brimmer.