The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-29
himself sitting at the table hard at

! to his feet. "Is what remember of last night real-not a dream?"
 ''Not dream at all. Twill no longer have my career blasted at the outset by your confounded laziness. I think you understand me perfectly. am clear of you whenever please. I join you when please. '
 "Ohl And have the same power?'
 'You? Certainly not You are only the half that won't work. You have got no power at all. '
 "Ohl We'll, shall not stand that.
 You can't help yourself am the Intellectual Principle. Mine is the will Mine is the clear head and the author ity."
 What am I tken?"
 "You? I don't know. You are me yourself-without the Intellectual Prin- ciple. That is what you are. must de- fine you by negatives. You cannot argue or reason or create. You remember, like an animal, from assistance. You behave nicely because you have been trained You are-in short, you are the Animal Part. '
 "Ohp He was angry. He did not know what to reply. He was humiliated.
 Don't fall into a rage Go away and amuse yourself. You can do anything you please. Come back, however, in time for hall"
 The Animal Part obeyed. He went out, leaving the other part over his books. He spent the morning with other men as industriously disposed as him. self. He found strange lightness of spirits. There was no remonstrating voice within him representing him for his laziness, urging him to get up and go to work Not at all. That voice was silent. He was left quite undisturbed He talked with these men over tobacco He played billiards with them. He lay in chair and looked at novel. He had luncheon and beer and more tobacco He went down the river in the college boat He had an hour or two of whist before hall. Then he returned to his room.
 His other half looked up, surprised.
 Already? The day has flown
 ''One moment," said Will, "before we go ill. You're serious sort, you know, and I'm one of the-the lighter ornaments of the college, and I sit among them. It would be awkward breaking off all at once. Besides
 "I understand Continue to sit with them for awhile and talk as much idiot ic stuff as you please. Presently you will find that change of companions and of conversation has become neces- sary."
 Nobody noticed any change The two i'll one sat at table and ate like one They talked like one. They talked friv-' olously, telling stories like one. After hall they went back to their chambers
 "You can leave me-" said the stu dent. ''I shall rest for an hour or so; then shall go on again
 This very remarkable arrangement went on undisturbed for some time. No ono suspected it. No one discovered it. It became quite natural for Challice to go out of his room in the morning and to leave himself at work. It became nat ural to go to hall at with mingled recollection of work and amusements The representing voice was silent, the Animal Part was left at peace, and the Intellectual Part went on reading at peace.
 One evening, however, going across the court at midnight, Will met the tu- tor.
 "Challice," he said, 'is it wise to burn the candle at both ends? Come, you told me this morning that you were working hard. What do you call this? You cannot serve two masters. D
 ''It is quite true, said the reading half on being questioned. "I have fore seen this difficulty for some time. called on the tutor this morning, and told him of my intention to work. He laughed aloud I insisted. Then he pointed out the absurdity of pretending to work while one was idling about all day. This is awkward Y"
 "What do you propose then?"
 "I propose that you stay indoors all the morning until o'clock, locked in. /"
 ''What? And you look on while you are mugging?"
 Exactly. You may read French nov els. You may go to sleep. You must be quiet. Only you be here all the morn ing. In the afternoon you may do what you please. l may quite trust you to avoid any effort of the brain. Ohl And you will avoid anything stronger than tea before hall. Nomore beer for lunch. It makes me heavy"
 No more beer? This is tyranny"
 ''No. It is ambition. In the evening you may go out and play cards I shall stay here" {"
 They went to bed. It seemed to Will as if the other part of him-the Intel lectual Part-ordered him to go to sleep without further thought.
 This curious life of separation and of partial union continued, in fact, for the whole of the undergraduate time. Grad ually, however, great change came over the lazy half-the Animal Half. It-he-perceived that the whole of his reasoning powers had become absorbed by the Intellectual Half. He became really incapable of reasoning He could not follow out thought He had no thoughts. This made him seem dull, be- cause even the most indolent person likes to think that he has some powers of argument. This moiety of Challice had none He became quiet, dull His old wit deserted him. He was heavy. He drifted gradually out of the society which he had formerly frequented. He perceived that his old friends not only found him dull, but regarded him as a