So the pair went off in search of the sick-bay, as the hospital part of a battleship is called.

" Both midshipmen saluted, then left the sick-bay.

"The ship's surgeon, sir," he stammered, "asks you please to hurry to the sick-bay.

Ten minutes after being warned for it, the old complaint caught him again, and when the band played our lads out of barracks he was snugly tucked away in sick-bay with sweet girl V.A.D.'s coaxing him to nibble a little calves-foot jelly and keep his strength up.

"Sick-bay, we'll call it.

Two communicated with storerooms, one opened into the passage that led to the aft observation pit, the fourth gave access to the sick-bay.

Dr. Lombardo, a dark-skinned Florentine, who had been talking with Captain Alden, turned at the Master's entrance into the sick-bay.

The Master turned and left the sick-bay.

I know, of course, he didn't go back to the sick-bay.

"If they show such hysteria at just the initial stages of the game," he murmured, "what will they show when" The Legion had already begun to fall into well-disciplined routine, each man at his post, each doing duty to the full, whether that duty lay in pilot-house or cooks' galley, in engine-room or pit, in sick-bay or chartroom.