under a heavy ban these days. If you hadn’t saved the day as you did, sir,
all of our cadet party might have been dismissed the Service. Those absent
from quarters without leave will get only a few demerits apiece. We have
that much to thank you for, sir, and we do. All our thanks, remember. Good
night, sir.”

“My courage was down in my boots for a while,” confessed Hal Hastings, as
the three chums continued their walk back to the Basin.

“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.