"When?" demanded Eph, grimly. "When your boots--and the rest of you--were so
high up in the air over the blanket?"
"No; when the cadets were caught at it," replied Hal.
"Say, Jack," demanded Eph, "do you ever give much thought to the future
life?"
"Meaning the life in the next world?" questioned Benson.
"Yes."
"I sometimes give a good deal of thought to it," Jack confessed.
"Then where do you expect to go, when the time comes?"
"Why?"
"After the whoppers you told that officer?"
"I didn't tell him even a single tiny fib," protested Jack, indignantly.
"Oh, you George Washington!" choked Eph Somers.
"Well, I didn't," insisted Jack. "Now, just stop and think. Weren't we all
three discussing hazing?"
"Yes."
"Then that part of what I told the officer was straight. Now, Eph, when we
saw that first cadet come along, didn't I suggest to you to ask him about
hazing?"
"Ye-es," admitted Somers, thoughtfully.
"Then, didn't the cadet midshipmen offer to show us all about hazing
pranks, and didn't they do it?"
"Well, rather," muttered Eph.
"Now, young man, that's all I told the officer, except that we enjoyed our
entertainment greatly.
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