The Red Cloud chief., 1879-07-03

owing their depths, dark curls clinging
70 his forehead, lips quivering in ehort
70 Shape into words the gratitude he
would express TO his deiiveYer, was the
unWelcome vision that me: my sight
for eyes, brow and mouth were Lady
Jane q
I haAsd upon the threshold, staring
as ut . wrath.
"Dsekss hs cried, In amazement ss
REUo4 q my own. "Dear Old fellow,
% ! owe my life 20 youf"
& r sotking," sa;d, cold1y. "They
said . STUDENT Was drowning; / did no.
suspect Who IL was"
The ~ RAsed at me - 10th 10 credit
the evidGnco of his senses, biz eyes I'LL
ing with . grief for which language had
no vent.
you did no, suspsc. who il WASP
b repeated, slowly. "N you had sUs-
pected tha* IL Wa Il"
He turned his head upon the pillow.
his face 70 the wall, which was no more
blank and cold than the visage OF the
man who had been for two years TO him
a. q brother.
I fingered one awkward moment, then
left the place.
1t was Saturday afternoon, and ] vas
glad I had engaged 70 spend the Sab.
bath with a friend out Of town. could
not meet those haunting eyes again, for
W. had, by solemn pact and covenant,
sent him TO Coventry, and should be
the last Of all the league TO sound q re-
call. When l returned on Monday, Lady
James trunk and other possessions had
disappeared from our dornitory. He
had been summoned home by news
Of his fathers sudden death. He never
came back to u college.
Ten years later I met " Prex," now a
somew hat garrulous old gentleman, at
Saratoga. He came TO my room n
night with q newspaper in his hand.
"Do you remember John Grey, Of the
class of ASP" he began.
81 do" I replied, briefly.
"By the way, l never guessed how
unjustly the poor fellow had been treat
ed by you hot-headed boys until
after he left college," pursued the good
natured official, crossing his legs after
the manner of one who has a story TO
tell. "He never gave information
against you in that little stove and-pep-
per escapade. Perhaps you have for
gotten it?"
Forgotten it! Nothing less likely!
PreX prosed on. "a youth of un-
common ability was Grey, especially in
languages. In Greek a prodigy, ac-
cording to Prof. Field. Blythe by, it
was Fla Id himself whose lynx eyes saw
you silt the pepper and birthstone com
pound upon the stove"-here he laugh
ed-"like the scsramouch you were
He gave direct evidence to that effect
before Us. We sent for Grey to thank
him formally for the consistency Of his
respectful and gentlemanly department
towards Prof Field, he being in that lie
spect q marked exception to the rest of
his class. He looked like n receiving
censure, rather than praise, while l was
t king. As I finished, Field broke in,
in his blunt way
snow tell us who split pepper upon
the stove to-day !"
ISL decline answering that question,
SIR said the lad, 'or any other that
may criminate my classmates
''Field smiled. Don't trouble your
SELF he said. 1T was your Fidus
Achates-your room-mate! We have
caught him this time!'.
"Grey did not a muscle. AS l
have said, l do not play spy, much less
informer, upon any of my Glass; he re-
peated. 'May l 60 now, STRIP to me.
81 sssented, willing to spare his feel
ings, and secretly admiIing his gallant
bearing. A fine boy, with a heart Of
gold! But, as l was about to say, l am
truly grieved to see this"
He passed the paper to me, his thumb
upon a paragraph.
"On the 9th inst, in Memphis, of yell
low fever, John James Grey, aged2S.-
YOuths's Companion.