to do with it now most decidedly i should not i like my present position too well to fall out of it i m go ig to be captain next term if i can fetch it any way in the world you mean to be a just like the rest of them you are not the same fellow you used to be yes i am you are getting too big for your boots you wrong me i m just as good a fellow as i ever was i think i m the best fellow in the ship and for that reason i want to be captain i m ahead of so far on marks this month well if you want to be the head i hope you ll get it we are not going ashore to morrow they say added changing the topic to get nearer to the business of the hour so told me are you willing to stay on board and study and do ship s duty on the fourth of july we are going to how i m sure i don t know we shall to morrow just as we do every day � as close prisoners on board the ship i for one ik n t like it and i won t stand it won t you laughed young america afloat when i say i won t i mean so o you do � do you you better believe i do added shaking his head resolutely what are you going to do i m going ashore by hook or by better not get into any scrape say that as one of the well you had better not say anything to me for i shall have to do my duty as an don t say anything to me and then i not know anything about it sneered not pleased witli this non policy i don t want to do anything mean with any of our fellows so don t say a word to me i shall do my duty as an officer as i promised to do when i was made third lieutenant do you mean to say you will stop me if you see me going demanded i do mean so i promised faithfully to do my duty as an officer and i shall do it see here bob you needn t talk to me in that manner i knew the ship s cable from a pint of milk and you can t come the over me i m going to do just as you would do if you were in my place i won t hear a word about any of your but will you interfere with them if it is my duty to do so i shall i intend to obey orders and if i have the deck i shall keep things straight whatever happens outward bound or don t know you as well as i do no matter if he don t he have no fault to find with me this term jf i can help it it s no use for me to the matter with you bob we understand each other too well for tliat s up turned on his heel and was about to walk away hold on a minute continued i won t tell you what s up but i ll tell ou this if you interfere with what i do or with what the fellows with me do i ll tell about the � i will as sure as your name is bob do you understand me well i do and it seems to me that sounds very much like a threat call it what you like if you turn traitor to our fellows you must stand the of it you are not a saint just yet and those that live in glass houses t throw stones i believe i haven t played false to any of our fellows if i don t choose to get into any scrape with them i have a right to keep out that s all i ve got to say but what are you going to do out fellows will want to know i m going to do my duty replied the third lieutenant as he walked away regardless of tlie efforts of his companion to detain him was the truth of the old that honesty is the best policy it is to be regretted that his present devotion to duty had no young afloat higher than mere policy but it may be hoped of those who do their duty from low motives that they may gather inspiration even from their fidelity to obey its from higher motives the third lieutenant of the young america intended to keep the promise he had made in accepting liis simply because it would pay best and his had no difficulty in making up the required number of and before six o clock which was the time fixed for carrying out the enterprise they had planned some of the joined because they anticipated a good time in the city in the fourth and others from a mere love of mischief and excitement the details of tlie scheme had been carefully by and after tlie ranks of the were full having learned a valuable lesson from the daily discipline of the ship the mischief was certainly well planned each boy was assigned to a particular position in the boats and knew on what he was to sit and which oar he was to pull and as the master spirits of the enterprise were to run out first on the swinging boom and slide down the painters each into the boat he was to command the others were to follow in the same way descending from the boom for it was not con prudent to run the boats up to the where some enthusiastic officer might easily interfere with the plan which was to depend for its success 