that it was any one s fault i do � it was your fault when i ordered you to back water you tossed the oars the oars were right over the man s head if we had backed they would have sent him to the bottom you always know better than your officers if you had obeyed your superior in the boat that man would not have been lost i don t think it was my fault you mean b hat it was my fault i didn t say so replied who was by this time satisfied that it was useless to argue the point that is what you mean and what you have been saying to all the fellows then you left your place and went into the bow of the giving me the lines � a piece of impudence which i should have resented at any other time i should not have done it at any other time mr � you actually took command of the boat and winked me out of sight palace and cottage or i did not intend any perhaps you didn t and i should not have thought anything of it if it hadn t been for the stories which have been told since replied you may be a bigger man than i am but it don t become you to ay so the lieutenant turned on his heel and left very much annoyed by the sharp words of his superior during the interview he had done nothing to justify the speech of the officer he s a said little stepping up to him after hearing a portion of the conversation he is very unfair answered more in grief than in anger he came within one of using me up and i don t feel much obliged to him we shouldn t have saved any one if it hadn t been for you when you took the command out of his hands and managed the boat yourself did you think i took the command away from him i did and all the fellows so and were glad you did was more annoyed than before as little desired he should be he had not intended to his superior though perhaps he had spoken in the excitement of the moment for this offence he was summoned into the presence of the principal had complained of him to the captain it was hard after he had done so well to be accused or even suspected of to his officer and the old adam of his nature prompted him to resent this treatment young america in france and chapter v the bag of gold was the lion of the day but it made very little difference what the thought of him if he had failed to secure the approbation of the principal and the officers the fact that he had been called to the bar after what had passed between himself and to answer to charges indicated that he had incurred the displeasure of mr the complaint against him had at least been heard and notice enough taken of it to call him up he was a young man and he had been struggling for months to overcome the evil in his nature he had been tempted on every hand but thus far he had conquered the very efforts he made to live a good and true life rendered him sensitive to every besides striving to keep his conduct above reproach morally he was also struggling to attain a high position in the ship he had studied very hard and been exceedingly careful in the discharge of all his routine duties so that during the two months of the present term which had elapsed not a single mark for bad conduct and hardly a failure in the lessons had been noted against his name this was his record and anything better was scarcely possible now he was palace and cottage or to be charged with of orders he was willing to acknowledge that he was and guilty he had in the enthusiasm of his humane labors asked to take the and had gone into the fore sheets without orders the better to do the work for which the had been sent out if was troubled and embarrassed the principal was more so the second lieutenant had made a formal complaint to the officer which had been reported to the captain and by him referred to the highest authority on board it was patent to mr and to the officers that was not equal to the position to which he had been assigned in the ordinary routine of the ship he was faithful and capable but when left to his own resources he lacked energy and judgment he was a particular friend of captain haven who had ordered him to the satisfied that the skill of the would the deficiency of the officer it was evident that somebody had been making trouble in the ship but the boys were so ready to talk and to that the special agency of little had not been noticed for it was true that he had been very industrious in stirring up strife the rogue had directed the thoughts of his until poor was under a heavy cloud at the same time was and it was generally understood through the vessel that if the had not taken the command out of the hands of the second lieutenant miss grace would certainly have been drowned by s the complaint which the second lieutenant felt young america in france and obliged to make in self defence had come to the principal and he was compelled to notice it little had actually forced the case into the cabin where he had from the first intended it should go it would be very hard to censure but if an inferior were permitted to take the command away from his officer all discipline would soon be at an 