The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-12
Cadet Stories The New Roommate.
BY WILLIAM WALLACE wHIrELocK.

blooming idiot. Just you attend to your own affairs and never mind what delinquency I'm on. There goes tnps! Quick. put out the light! And now shut up about changing your room. You were only fooiing, anyhow, weren't your
 You'll see tomorrow" came the reply from out the darkness. i've spoken to Colonel Wells about 1t and it's all arranged. Good night.'n
 Nov, look here, 'Shorty,'7 E began Henry In protest. but he was not permitted to finish.
 Close your sweet eyes in dewy slulmber. Woo Morpheus. Rock yourself in the cradle of the deep. In short, shut upT' Nor could Henry induce him to say any thing further.
 Moreover, the next day Henry learned that shorty had not been merely blufifug. as he | had at first ima gined, but that the former sailor really intended to desert him. S'I'm resigning for the good of the service, V was the only reply he would vouchsafe, and at last Henry gave mp In despair and ac- cepted the inevitable.
 The removal was made after dinner, before the afternoon session, "Shorty's' effects be Ing transferred into the room of boy named Fahnestock, who had hitherto lived in soil tsry bliss. That evening and night Henry passed alone but the next day, threatened by melancholy, he invited 'Dutchy' Schmidt to share quarters with him, and. permission having been granted, "Duteby'' moved in with all his possessions, accent and all. For a while Henry sadly missed "Shorty's' sea tales and his amusing prarks, but there was undoubtedly some comfort to be derived from the fact that he now no longer found himself on one of the deiinqueneies at the weeks end. and that. thanks to "Dutchy assistance in mathematics, for which the boy possessed geplus his average in these branches was rapidly improving, and there with his chances for a high appointment next year.
 In the meantime Shorty" and his new roommate were jogging along In quieter manner than ever before known in the his tory of the peace destroyer" as "Frenchy' l had christened him. The improvement, how ever, was due entirely to Fahnestock, who was a quiet, silent boy. more likely than no' to pass the entire study hour without speak | ing. At first this annoyed Shorty but | gradually he grew accustomed to the new state of affairs. Moreover, unconsciously he grew attached to his silent companion and he fell to wondering why Fanny as he had been nicknamed by the class, should 1 be so shrinking and self-contained. Thers was something not quite natural in his tacf turntty, touch of sadness as though hs were conscious of a barrier between himself and the others. At least, so 1t seemed t' shorty" whose eyes were good dea sharper than they were sometimes credited | with being.
 Fahncstock was handsome boy. tan ans slender, and of distinguished figure. Fur thermore, evidently he belonged to rici | family us every thing he possessed was o
 the finest and he always had plenty o1 money to spend. That he came from New York and that his sister, who had come twice to see him, was winner" as
 Feaster expressed 1t, was the extent of his schoolmates' knowledge concerning him Tacitly, however, the belief had formed tha his father was large dealer tn real estate 1 and that most of his time was spent aboard his palatial yacht. Certainly these stories