both faithful and careful the beans and the peas were readily obtained and were distributed among the members of the league with the necessary secrecy some of the independent needed a little persuasion to induce them to vote when informed that the choice was between tlie only but they yielded the point and entered heartily into the excitement of the event for secret as were the proceedings they were attended with no little of feeling the commenced in the afternoon watch the second part of the watch being off duty gave in their peas and beans first the without even knowing all the members of the league took whatever was handed to them on the sly and looked as careless and indifferent as though nothing was going on the only responsibility that rested outward bound or upon them besides the general duty of and fidelity was to see that no one twice vote early and vote often was not and one acted as a check upon the other the election so secretly that no occasion for suspicion was given and though the were deposited under the eyes of the principal and the professors they saw nothing and had not the remotest idea that anything wrong was in progress in the last half of the first dog watch began to be excited he was too much of a to be idle while any was going on and so far as his duty would permit he had watched the since the commenced he had seen seven or eight vote of whose in the chain he had no previous knowledge he saw that had made more than he had been willing to acknowledge apparently concealing the facts for the purpose of his own election he observed that all the officers of his rival s quarter watch and he was almost certain that he had been defeated was angry and indignant when he discovered the treacherous of his fellow but he had solemnly promised to abide the result of the election and he could not from his position without a of the honor among thieves which is said to exist the would not be closed for half an hour and as he had been cheated he deemed it quite right to restore the by a resort to the same policy i have been cheated said he angrily as he met his old in the waist how do you know you have i know it i will explain by and by something must be done i am beaten as sure as you live well can t help it if you are you and have fixed things to suit yourselves and now you must fight it out between you replied as he turned on his heel and left the mighty mischief maker alone and disconcerted where do all these beans come from said paul as he noticed the rejected of the which they had not even taken the trouble to throw over the rail if s a new game the fellows are replied with apparent indifference as he walked aft with the second lieutenant what s that asked paul curiously it s called don t know beans answered in deep thought the fellows have a good deal of sport out of it in the off time don t know beans i never heard of such a game before tell me about it you see and yes well they are the as we call them all the fellows in our watch have some beans added taking a handful of them from his pocket what do they do with them you try it yourself take two of these beans paul took them now you must give one to and the other to without letting any fellow see you j bound or do it if any fellow does see you give it to either of them he will say in a low tone don t know beans and then the butt must drop it on deck when the even bell strikes and must count their beans the one who has the most must the next two pots or and the one who has the smaller number must pick up all the beans that have been dropped on the deck there is fun in it though perhaps you wouldn t think so i will try it at any rate paul did try it and succeeded as all others did in giving the beans to the without any one uttering the warning words he w as rather pleased with the game so suddenly invented and the two officers of his watch were induced to try the experiment then and were supplied with beans by who instructed his that not a word must be said about tlie matter to the or to any one in the waist the last three were as successful as the first three then and were equally finally captain s attention was attracted and he descended so far from his dignity as to deposit the beans was satisfied he had procured nine and he was confident that he had thus defeated his rival as a matter of precaution he directed to pick up the beans scattered in the waist and the who had cast the nine believed that he was the unlucky butt who had been beaten in the game young america afloat the captain and half the officers whispered at four bells certainly that s all right you and will meet and me in the waist at eight bells replied as he went below outward bound or chapter the result of the the first part of the port watch went on duty at eight o clock when the secret for the choice of a captain under the new order of events was closed was in this watch but as neither his trick at the wheel nor his turn on the the first hour he had an opportunity to attend to the important business of tlie league and 