Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-11-09

blowing with the boisterousness of youth
and health
Yes, sir; and we'd better hurry up, for
they won't stand tied much longer. My
eye, but it's dark out doors!"
go and tell Prof Cronin to be ready for
us by the time we get back. Tell Pat and
Dave to come on and bring the dark la tern
with you as yeu come back"
"All right, sir" and the young man went
out
Arthur Denver, left alone, slipped his
pistols into his pockets, looked all around
the waiting-room of Westmoreland Col
ege in which he was standing, whistled
softly part of tune in an absent-minded
way, and stepped out of the light room
Into the darkness of the storm.
The sudden transition from light to dark
blinded him, but he soon saw the dim
lights in the far-off windows of the college
donaitory, and discerned before him the
pwaying branches of the trees and the
rush of rain-drops across the ath of
light that streamed from the window of
th room he had Just left
He remained standing long enough to
have developed some impatienGe-though,
II the wind could have taken cOgn' Zance of
the face it beat against, it would have per-
ceived that the mind was far away and was
noticing neither the weather nor the low
ering temperature-whens simultaneously a
good natured peal of laughter and clatter
OF horses hoofs announced the arrival of
his young friend with the team He drove
MP at dashing pace and refined his horses
IN so suddenly 1t threw them on their
launches. Arthur could dimlv see behind
the restless horses, light spring wagon
and in it the dark and shadowy figures of
three man He p1imbed m and tOOk he va
cant seat beside the driver. At word the
mettlesome steeds sprang forward and
sped through the darkness at breakneck
pace.
You will have to learn to be more quiet
on expeditions of this sort, Morton" said
Arthur Denver
1T was not who laughed 80 boisterously
Just before we came up with you" replied
the young man
Indeed? thought 1t was"
mo, sir 1t was Graeme."
''Graeme! The idiot! What does he out
on such n night as this?"
He be always out on these koind Of
noights, sol" spoke up one of the men on
the back seat.
Arthur Denver shrugged his shoulders
Are you sure you know the road, Nor
tom"
Been over it ever since l was child,
sir"
And he did know it, for they flew around
the hillsides, over dangerous ground
enough in daylight, without an accident
The rain still beat in gusts directly in their
faces A smothered impreca ion from one
or the other of the two men in the back
seat betrayed their nativity and early re-
ligious training, as well as varied the
monotony by marking the passage of some
particularly rough chuck-hOle or high
culvert They sped on, winding among
the hills and measuring many a dreary
lane before they stopped And when they
did halt, it was before gate that had over
&c a huge white arch dimly discernible
through the murky night The gate was
locked, but it yielded to the open sesame"
OF a broad key in the hands of Morton.
Through the gate the wagon passed, and
along the graveled driveway woupu its
tortuous way among the habitations of the
dead until it came to a new-made grave.
Here the men alighted and while the late
occupants of the rear seat shoveled away
MT the mound, Morton hitched the horses
and stepped back to watch the gate. and
Arthur skilfuily lit his pipe beneath his
great-coat and smoked
Half an hour later the same team was
making n return trip over the same road
A fifth passenger was now aboard But
this passenger lay on the floor OF tho
wagon in a sack.
At the college gate Prof. Cronin met
them
Have YOU got Anoe?' he inquired You
had better put her in your room, Prof,
Denver, till tonight; the lock is broken on
the door of the dissecting room, and IL II
will not Inconvenience"
mot at all"
Morton drove on slowly through the col
Iepe grove. The wind had died down aho
the rain ceased, leaving the air 1uu OF
damp fog. The first indications OF dawn
were barely observable in the gradually
clearing eastern horizon as the trees began
to loom into spectral shape, holding lhelr
wide-spreading arms and dripping myers
over the wagon passing beneath. Inc
somber pile of the college outlined itselI
indistinctly against the gray sky 10 tne
left Law the dormitory hall, to the right the
building occupied by the laboratories, reel
tation rooms and the bachelor apartments
Of Prof. Arthur Denver. To the last-men-
toned place they drove. The professor
Maid the men, dismissed Morton with tns