The Republican., 1895-08-15

over AS every Hail III Jlle cldSS huO"S,
he can wipe out all the rest of us in
classics without half trying. But
Wright went to him and made a poor
mouth about being so hard up that
he'd have to leave the college ii he
didn't get the scholarship. Bert has
none too much cash himself, but in
his generous way he agreed not to go
in for the special exam. So Wright,
of cou rse, got the scholarship. In re-
turn he promised Knollys that he would
not go in for the junior Latin the fol-
lowing year This suited Bert very
well, as he wanted to put his hard
work on his readings for the science
medal Under these circumstances,
you see, he has been taking it rather
easy in the Latin: and / have reason to
believe that Wright has been working
extra hard at it. Mark my words, he'll
go in at the last moment, and catch
Bert mapping. But there's not another
man In college that l would suspect of
such caddish trick"
"Well, for my part" said the senior,
Il don't greatly care which of them
gets it. grant you that Wright's a
cad; but I'm disappointed in Knollys"
Indeed Poor Knollys!" murmured
Allison.
Yes" continued the senior, loftily,
ignoring the sarcasm; ''in my opinion
Knollys funks."
ut seems to me, Jones'" retorted
Allison, you forget certain incidents
that took place when Bert Knollys was
aufreshman and you sophomore!"
At this moment Jack Wright, chanc-
ing to stroll past the big black dog.
gave the animal careless kick. The
dog sprang at his assailant with a fero-
cious snarl. Much startled, Wright
evaded the attack by dodging into a
knot of his classmates: and the dog
lay down again, growing angrily.
Bran doesn't seem to be quite him
self remarked a senior, ewing him
narrowly.
He'd be an ugly customer to
handle if he started to run amuck,"
commented another senior, chuckling
at Wright's discontinue. 81 wonder
where he got that bite on his leg!'
As soon as Knollys came out of the
la boratory VIII Allison told him his
suspicious in regard to Wright, and
urged him to put his energies upon the
Latin. But Knollys was always slow
to believe that comrade could be
guilty of treachery.
Just three days later appeared on
the notice board the announcement
that b. Knollys and j. S. Wright were
competitors for the junior Latin schol-
arship! The examination was to take
place on the following morning. Bert
Knollys was hurt and indignant, his
friends were furious, and Wright
looked craftiiy triumphant over the
prospect of SO neatly getting ahead of
a rival.
Knollys was by no means prepared
for such contest as he knew Wright
was capable of giving him, but his
anger nerved him to the utmost effort.
Returning in hot haste to his home in
the outskirts of the town, he shut him
self into his little study. All through
the afternoon he toiled nightly over
book and lexicon. About teatime he
took a short walk, and then settled
down for night of solid grind" He
was bound that he would win if it was
in him.
Toward two o'clock, however, eyes
and brain alike grew dim, and the
meanings began to mix themselves
most veXatiously. He sprang up,
snatched his cap, let himself out of the
house noiselessly, and set forth to
wake his wits by brisk run.
For the sake of the freer air he took
path traversing the hilltop toward
the college. The path ran through
the open pastures and reached at
length rocky ridge just back of the
cottage of DR.. Adams, the professor of
classics. Here Jack Wright was board
ing. AS Knollys swung past along the
ridge he glanced downward to the
professors study window; and as he
did so light appeared therein. He
halted instinctively-and the next
moment his lip was curling with as
tonished contempt as he saw Jack
Wright seat himself before the study
table, and stealthily search the draw
ers. The top of the ridge was so near
the window that Knollys, where he
leaned against the fence, could see all
that went on as if he had been in the
room. At last, after going through
almost every drawer, with frequent
guilty, listening pauses, Wright found
what he wanted-an exami nation pa
per! After making hurried copy of
it he returned it to its place; and then,
with his lamp turned very low, he
stole out of the room.
Bert knollys' first thought was to go
at once to DR.. Adams. lay his com
plant, and have Wright's room
searched before he could have time to
destroy the stolen copy. Then it oc-
Cured to him that this would lead in
evitably to Wrights expulsion, and not
improbably to his ruin. He therefore
dismissed the idea. He hastened back
home; tried to study, but found the eff
fort vain; went to bed and fell asleep
without having arrived at any solution
of the problem. In the morning he
was equally undecided. Perhaps his
best course would have been to go to
the professor, declare suspicion that
the paper had been tampered with, and
ask that a new paper be set. But he
failed to think of this way out of the diff
6cult Y; and at last, tired of worrying