Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-06-14

NAL or attempt at self-justification,
would be admitted, the Faculty having
ample proof of my guilt in the positive,
although reluctant, testimony of one
who had been an eyewitness Of the
deed, and / was to be publicly repri-
manded in the chapel next morning.
When the buzz and whirl of my senses
ceased, l found myself back in my
room, Lady Jane, still pale and alarmed,
gazing into my face.
al was afraid of it." he repeated
more thsn once; and upon hearing what
was to be the form of punishment"
wish l could stand by you, Dick, and
share it,
81 would rather stand in my shoes
than in those of the infOrmer when the
class have hunted him down, ~ returned,
sore and savage.
In less than three days they had run
him to earth, to the indignant astonish-
ment of ALTO my grief and horror.
Searching inquiry revealed that no wit
ness besides Lady Jane had been called
before the tribunal which had condemned
me. When hidden to speak in his own
defense, he stoutly denied having given
evidence against me, but refused to re-
peat what had passed between the in
quisitors and himself.
"They informed you upon whom sus-
picion rested, l presume?" asked a
sophomore.
"Tkey did"
"And' what was your reply?"
"That 1 should answer no questions
relative to the conduct of any of my
classmates"
"An honorable man would have hid
his friend out of danger sooner than ut
ter such contemplate evasion!" said
the hot-headed 9uerist.
The chairman of the Vigilance
Committee summed up the case after
the accused had been sent out of the
room.
The fellow is not a malicious spy,
but he lacks backbone, and breads los
ing the good opinion of the Faculty.
He was frightened into confession, but
he must be made an example of all the
same"
So said they all. Even I, whose dear
est friend he had been, recalling his
speech and behavior before and after
my arrangement, could not resist the
weight of evidence.
So we sent him to Coventry. So far
as we could, we carried into execution
the ancient ban of accommodation
We cursed him, by cool and disdainful
non-intercourse, when he lay down and
when he arose up. Sitting, standing,
walking, eating, he was The Parish of
his whilom mates.
Youth is cruel in love or in hate, and
we never wavered in our declared pur-
pose, even going out of our way, when
occasions rose not ready to our hand, to
make him feel the full weight of our
vengeance. And-Hesven help us! we
thought ourselves manly and righteous
throughout, worthy indicators of the
soiled honor of the class that had
"spawned en- informer" That was our
grandiose way of describing the offense
which smelled so rank in our heroic
nostrils.
After one vain attempt to induce me
to listen to his story, the culprit offered
no resistance to his doom, bearing it
with steady mien, so far and SO equal
ly removed from sullenness, or abject-
ness, that we would have called him
''game," had we not preferred to con-
slider him insolent.
Thus went on two long months, in
which, although we still roomed to-
gether, Lady Jane and l had not ex-
changed one word. There was superb
skating that season, and we spent most
of our leisure time upon the river. One
afternoon, in passing the '.bend" where
the stream was widest and most crowd
ed, heard shouts, and saw all recoil,
as one man, from the middle of the
channel.
at is student l saw his cap in
the water J" l overheard some one say.
The next second l was in the open
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