"For your sake, Danny, I hope Miss Preston is as much interested in you as you certainly are in her." "Are you going to lecture me ?" "Not tonight, Dan." "Then I'm going to get in between sheets.

It's chilly here in the room." "Duck!" whispered Dave with sudden energy.
Footsteps could be heard coming down the corridor.

It was a noise like a discipline officer.
Three doors above that of the room occupied by our midshipman friends were opened, one after the other.

Then a hand rested on the knob of the door to Dave and Dan's room.

The door was opened, and the rays of a pocket electric light flashed into the room.
Dan lay on one side, an arm thrown out of bed, his breathing regular but a trifle loud.