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 his steamer stopped. He saluted very stiffly; then the engine began to sputter again. "Commanding officer," he explained. "Glad he wasn't going the same way we are, or we'd have had to ask permission to pass him."

"What a lot you need to remember!" said Joan.

"There are harder things to remember than signals and salutes, aren't there, Steve?" said Jim.

"When you get into the Navy this fall, Fogger," said Garth, "Steve will have to salute you like that, won't he?"

Jim laughed.

"By that time," he said, "Steve will probably be a lieutenant, and I shall have to salute him."

The launch circled about under the sharp, curved bows of the destroyers, and the glimpses of busy life on board were very tantalizing.

"If you lean out so far and try to see so much, they'll think you're a German spy," said Jim, pulling Garth back from the gunwale. "Besides, don't you know Paragraph 116, Rule 7? 'The coxswain of a power-boat is especially responsible that the crew and passengers sit down in their proper places; that they do not