As soon as these young men, the Submarine Boys as they are called, are twenty-one, the Navy Department will bestir itself to give them actual commissions and make them real staff or line officers." "So that those kids will rank us in the service ?" grumbled Dan.
"Well, up to date," replied Dave quietly, "the Submarine Boys have done more for their country than we have.

Of course, in the end, we may be admirals in the Navy, even before they're captains.
Who can tell ?" "I wonder what Benson is doing here ?" murmured Farley.
"Lieutenant Benson," Dave corrected him, "is probably here on official business.

If you want exact details, suppose we stop at the superintendent's house and ask him." "Quit your kidding," grinned Farley.
"So I've got to say 'sir,' if that boy speaks to me ?" asked Dan.
"I think it would be better," smiled Darrin, "if you're anxious to escape another handful of demerits." By the time that the football squad began to assemble on the football field, Dan and his friends found that some of the midshipmen were full of information about the famous Submarine Boys.

Readers who may not be familiar with the careers of Lieutenant Jack Benson, Ensign Hal Hastings, and Ensign Eph Somers are referred to the volumes of the _Submarine Boys' Series_.

In _"The Submarine Boys and the Middies"_ will be found the account of the hazing that Jack, Hal and Eph had received at the hands of midshipmen.
Benson and his two friends, with a crew of four men, were now at the Naval Academy, having arrived at two o'clock that afternoon, for the purpose of giving the first classmen instruction aboard the latest Pollard submarine, the "Dodger." But play was called, and that stopped, for the time being, all talk about the Submarine Boys..