He and I have been chatting the matter over, and he is in the highest glee." "Ah! He has only got the first chance of being shot at," Captain Peters said.

"That comes in the line of duty, and I hope there isn't an officer on board a ship but would volunteer, at once, for that service.
But your real danger only begins when his ends.
"By the way," he asked, as, after dinner was over, he was walking up and down the quarterdeck, talking to James, "have you and Lieutenant Horton met before?
I thought you seemed to know each other when I came up, but, since then I have noticed that, while all the other officers of the ship have been chatting with you, he has kept aloof." "We knew each other at home, sir," James said, "but we were never very good friends.

Our acquaintanceship commenced, when we were boys, with a fight.

I got the best of it, and Horton has never, I think, quite forgiven me." "I don't like the young fellow," Captain Peters said shortly.

"I know he was not popular in the Thetis, and they say he showed the white feather out in the East.