"Serves me right!" sputtered Dalzell, at last. "A man in the
Navy has no business to think about the other sex. He should
give his whole time and thought to his profession and his country.
That's what I'll surely do after this."
Having reached this conclusion, the midshipman should have been
more at peace with himself, but he wasn't. He had been sorely,
even if foolishly wounded in his own self esteem, and it was bound
to hurt until the sensation wore off.
"You'll know more, one of these days, Danny boy," was his next
conclusion. "And what you know will do you a lot more good, too,
if it doesn't include any knowledge whatever of girls---except
the disposition and the ability to keep away from 'em! I suppose
there are a few who wouldn't fool a fellow in this shameless way
but it will be a heap safer not to try to find any of the few!"
Dan's head was still down, and he was walking as blindly as ever,
when he turned a corner and ran squarely into some one.
"Why don't you look out where you're going?" demanded that some
one.
"Why don't you look out yourself?" snapped Midshipman Dalzell,
and the next instant a heavy hand was laid upon him.
CHAPTER VI
THE "FORGOT" PATH TO TROUBLE
"Here, confound you! I'll teach you to-----"
"Teach me how to walk the way you were going when I stopped you?"
demanded the same voice, and a harder grip was taken on Dalzell's
shoulder.
In his misery Dan was not at all averse to fighting, if a good
excuse were offered.
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