News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-10-19
How QuedglingtOn was Sent
Down.

How q uedglingtOn was Sent
Down.
Charley Quedglington was in thought
full mood. This was an unusual thing
for him. As a general rule he didn't
think; but the most rackety and mis-
chievous and debt-incurring, don-bait.
ing undergraduates have their moments
of thought, though they may studiously
conceal them. And Charley's thoughts,
this sunny May morning, as he glanced
into the blazing hot quadrangle, waiting
until it should be time to partake Of
Gordon's luncheon, were not very pleas
ant. ''If your name comes before Us
again, the Dean had said grimly, with
his sternest aspect-and the old gentle
man, the jolliest of talkative hosts at
dinner. could be very grim and stern
about u o'clock in the day-'if your
name comes before us again, Mr.. Qued-
ellington, we shall have no alternative but
to send you down for a considerable
either in college or in the city. This is
the last time you will be warned, sir.
Consider yourself gated after six for the
rest of the term"
"And, by Jove, 1 believe the old gen.
tleman means it I" ruminated Charley,
stretching his legs upon the window
seat, and putting his cigarette smoke
to the recesses of the shelterlng sun
blind. Gas sure as Fate, 1 shall get into
a row before the end of the term, though
it is only fortnight off. There is Cum
mings' wine tonight; and they'll go and
draw the bursar afterward, and then the
fat will be in the fire: for whether am
there or safe in bed, the porters will
swear to MIR. Quedglington-small blame
to them 7" And he laughed with keen
appreciation of his own bad eminence.
"Umph it's all very well but if it
comes to rustication, won't the governor
be savage? He's jolly old boy, and
he'll swallow the bills with hardly a
grimaee; but this affair wouldn't be
quite a coating of sugar to help them on
their way"
Charley's forbodines were not with
out more than usual share of proba-
bility. There was not much chance OF
the most popular and reckless of st.
Aldate's men keeping out of row for
the remaining weeks of the summer
terms. The dons had been very long
suffering with him. There was so much
good in him at bottom, the great lumi.
nary said in confidence after dinner, and
the lesser lights agreed with him. He
looked SO young; dark complexioned,
handsome fellow, hardly as old as his
years, and with but the faintest symp.
toms of a moustache, to which only his
scout knew how much care and time
were devoted. He appeared quiet
enough, and not very strong. Appear.
ances, however, are deceitful; and
Charley was not long in impressing his
set with his utterly thoughtless, reckless
gayety, which yet had not a grain OF
real evil at the bottom of it. His father,
man, and famous pillar of the church.
Charley would be well enough off some
day; so that the mere getting into debt
would hurt no one very much. But the
Archdeacon had passed through his col
lege career without reproach, and was
a great preacher, of note elsewhere than
in ecclesiastical circles. 1t would be a
terrible thing if the son of such a man
should be put to open shame, and sent
down like the son of any goddess earl or
weak-minded bishop.
"Hullo, Charley p cried a jovial
young voice from the quad below, at
this point Of his meditatlons "you'll'
breakfast with me tomorrow? The
best train for Watlingbury is at $780,
"I'm not coming" answered Charley
rather shortly.
"You are not coming?" cried his
interrogation. what is up now? But
wait a moment, and I'll be with you."
And up the echoing wooden staircase,
so shady and cool in comparison with
the blaze and sunshine outside, came
Cummings, three steps at a time, and
dashed into Charley's room.
"What is up now ?" he repeated.
"The Dean has sent for me, and says
he'll send me down if my name goes up
again this term"
"Pheugh that is bad. 1t would not
suit your book with the governor, would
it, Charley? But he has said the same
often before"
He means it this time; and he has
gated me after six for fortnight"
Gordon, what do you think is the
latest ?" cried Cummings, leaning out
of the window and accosting man in a
many-colored coat who was leaning out
of a ground-foor window not far off.
"Quedglington has been sent for and
gated until the end of the term. He
says he won't come to WatliDgbury to-
morrow"
"Gammon I'll come up and draw
the badger. What is eating ?"
Gordon should have known, for Char
ley excepted, no one at st. Aldate's had
more experience of it. Watlingbury
races we're strictly forbidden to the un-
dergraduates of the University; and
even the somewhat lax rules of st. AL
dates were upon this point strict as
those of more learned colleges. The
arrival of the trains from Watlingbury,
at any rate of those late in the day, was
attended by a proctor and bulldog, to
see if any of his flock had been astray;
while a watch was also kept upon the
roads which led from the city in that
direction.
"Look here r cried the tempter, clad
for the occasion in the fame-colored
blazon of the Hon. Richard Gordon,
" if we get back by the 4 o'clock train,
we shall see all the best of the fun, es-
cape the proctors, who will not be on