The cadets were on duty, and he was not allowed to even speak to Pepper.
"It's too bad," he said, on returning to the dormitory.

"I guess poor Pepper will have to remain where he is." "We might protest to Mr.Strong ?" suggested Bart Conners.
"It wouldn't do any good.

Crabtree is in charge during Captain Putnam's absence." One after another the cadets went to bed.

Jack was the last to retire, and it was a long while before he dropped off to sleep.

Then he dreamed about Pepper up in the far North, sitting on a cake of ice in a bathing-suit, which showed how much he had the welfare of his chum at heart.
In the morning Josiah Crabtree went below early.