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"I have."
"And, I suppose," hesitated Belle, "a few unavoidable enmities."
"I don't know about that," Dave replied promptly and with energy.
"I can't think of a fellow here that I wouldn't be ready and
glad to shake hands with. I hope---I trust---that all of the
fellows in the brigade feel the same way about me."
CHAPTER XXIV
CONCLUSION
There was one more formation yet---one more meal to be eaten under
good old Bancroft Hall.
But right after breakfast the graduates, each one now in brand-new
cit. attire, began to depart in droves.
Some went to the earliest train; others stopped at the hotels
and boarding houses in town to pick up relatives and friends with
whom the gladsome home journey was to be made.
"I don't like you as well in cits.," declared Belle, surveying
Dave critically in the hotel parlor.
"In the years to come," smiled Dave, "you'll see quite enough
of me in uniform."
"I don't know about that," Belle declared, her honest soul shining
in her eyes. "Do you feel that you'll ever see enough of me?"
"I know that I won't," Dave rejoined. "You have one great relief
in prospect," smiled Belle. "Whenever you do grow tired of me
you can seek orders to some ship on the other side of the world."
"The fact that I can't be at home regularly," answered Midshipman
Darrin, "is going to be the one cloud on our happiness. Never
fear my seeking orders that take me from home---unless in war
time.
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