"
"But sometimes girls tell one another some things-----"
"Belle Meade doesn't," interrupted Dave so briskly that Dalzell,
after a glance, agreed:
"You're right there, David, little giant. I've known Belle ever
since we were kids at the Central Grammar School. If Belle ever
got into any trouble through too free use of her tongue, then I
never heard anything about it."
"Dan, do you want a fine suggestion about the employment of the
rest of your liberty time while we're at Annapolis?"
"Yes."
"You remember Barnes's General History, that we used to have in
Grammar school?"
"Yes."
"Devote your liberty time to reading the book through again."
CHAPTER XXI
IN THE THICK OF DISASTER
Examination week---torture of the "wooden" and seventh heaven of
the "savvy!"
For the wooden man, he who knows little, this week of final
examinations is a period of unalloyed torture. He must go before
an array of professors who are there to expose his ignorance.
No "wooden" man can expect to get by. The gates of hope are closed
before his face. He marches to the ordeal, full of a dull misery.
Whether he is fourth classman or first, he knows that hope has
fled; that he will go below the saving 2.5 mark and be dropped
from the rolls.
But your "savvy" midshipman---he who knows much, and who is sure
and confident with his knowledge, finds this week of final examinations
a period of bliss and pride.
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