Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-11
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some of you have stood up ana 1ought 1or
me. Now l am going to ask you to go
| still further. to do something for me that
| In your loyalty and friendliness you
! haven't done yet. l ask you to be silent
for me.
mo wonder you look surprised. heard
| the latter part of the last speakers adj
| Dress and l am grateful for every word
| said for the battalion, for the student body
| and for myself. I heard the resolutions.
| They are indeed stirring. They are too
| stirring. You know, and 1 know, that no
student in this college had any part In the
! assault of that Friday night. ECheers.]
| You know and / know at least one of the
| participants. ["You bet we dol But you
| do not know what do know, that there
| is something more to this matter than as
yet appears. The action you propose
| would have the effect of warning men I
| most need to reach. ! ask you to help
| me. and the more you stir things the less
| you will help. Be patient, therefore, and
| be silent. Leave this matter to me, and
| bear this in mind: If 1 do not settle it
| once and for all within a month I'll leave
| the field to you. This you may count on:
| l shall ask no aid from the college in nail
| ing the man, or settling with him when J.
| find him.
| In garbled and exaggerated form. Of
course, the words went to the press. but
| the resolution did not. 1t was held by the
| Star that. in speaking, Capt. Fame dis
| tinctly threatened some person or persons
hitherto unsupported, and 1t was believed
| that "one of our most respected citizens
was aimed at. Now. Stetson, senior. had
unaccountably left town. By night
| train he had gone, 1t was said to Chicago
An uproariouS demonstration on the part
| of the students, consequent upon the STAR
| renewal of it's attack upon Fame. and its
assertion that the students themselves were
his real aSSalantS. may have had some
| thing to do with this exodus The son and
| heir, still under guard of the family physi-
| cian had not yet. by daytime, at least, left
| the house But Fane'S appeal to the STU
dent body had had double effect Demon
STATIONS ceased. Drills were resumed and
| ten names hitherto reported excused by
| the president were. at the request OF the
excused, added to the battalion rolls.
Then followed five days lu1l In the fight,
and then came stranger and even more
mysterious move. Prof. Beerbohm, clos
| ing up after the final recitation of the day,
was notified that the president desired to
see him at the office at once, and at that
office already sat Profs. Sharpe and Lori
mer, in company with stranger me
| president seldom introduced people. He
said it was waste of time; people who
| desired to know other people waited for no
| such intermediary He went, as was his
wont, straight to business.
Did you bring anybody to see me Friday
| evening week ago?''
Beerbohm reflected, began to color, and
finally said mo, sir
You came in about tea time, as I re-
member; didn't your
Il did, yes, sir, but brought nobody"
The good doctor turned to his fellows
of the faculty.
The captain must have been mistaken
said he.
Not entirely" said Professor Sharpe.
Pardon me if I ask Professor Beerbohm
a question. Was 1t not that evening you
went through from College avenue to the
president, walking with stranger In
dark sack suit?"
Yes said Beerbohm, warly and I'M
easily. But he was merely asking the
way and l was showing him.
ITO Mr.. Stetson's house, was 1t not?'
persisted Sharpe.
"To-Mr. Stetson's," answered Beer
bohm, flushing, with ill-concealed annoy
! ance.
Would you mind telling this-this gen.
tleman what name he gave and what hap
pened?' And Sharpe indicated the silent
stranger.
He gave no name that I now remem-
Der He appeared interested in college
matters and talked entertainingly until
we parted in front of the presidents.
never met him before 49,
But you met him-after, l believes!
haZarded the stranger, very civllly.
Beerbohm hesitated. "Not-since that
night" was. however, his answer.
'rTrue-not since that night; but once
again that night did you not?'
1t was now time for the professor TO
manifest righteous resentment. nat
| could this close examination portend: ne
| had seen the stranger again that night,
| and he did not at all wish to say how ana
when and why Il protest. said he,
| against this inquisition until L know
what IL means.
"It means. professor" said the stranger,
| that a man closely resembling Mr. Stet-
| son in several ways was with you at MI.
Stetsons house that nlght-went OUT, IN
| fact with Mr.. Stetson, and now is very
much needed to put quietus on danaS-
| ing stories afioat. You say ne ana hot
| give his name, but, did NOBODY give II
| for him.
| Mr.. President said Beerbohm, ex-
| citedly. appealingly II have had annoy
| ance and trouble enough growing OUT ol
| the-the complications that have arisen
| here since-since Mr.. Fanes advent, ana
| now 1 object to being catechized by
stranger. If you have any questions 10
| ask | will answer them ,zn+
| that when .for the good of the couese'
| as he said, he believed it possible TO lhI,u-
| ence an influential man. he would not hesi-
| tate TO call upon him and seek TO ADVISE
or dictate even when he and that man nad
| been at loggerheads for months. But WINE
| he could see nothing obJeCuonaoie III H-s
| ca ling upon Objectionable persons,
he strongly objected to such course on
part of any other man connected win tne
| college There could be nothing suspicious
| in his going. for instance to see Mr: sue.-
| SON There could be nothing. however
| that was not suspicious in Professor beer
| bohm's doing When trustees or poiill-
| clans were to be enlightened as TO coliege
| matters DIR. Parsons decreed that 1t was
| his light that should shine as to color
| the subject in accordance with his presi-
dental views. Only when he SO directed
therefore did he desire his subordinates
| but admittedly influential people Yet here
| it looked as though, without word to him
| on the subject, Professor Beerbohm had
| gone direct from the presidential presence
| to the home of the Objectionable Stetson-
| Stetson who on that very evening had been
| heard of as drunk and denunciatory among
| the downtown saloons. The president him
| self had begun to bristle at the tone and
| trend of the strangers questions. Now In
! tone much less courteous than the
| latter's, and in manner both suspicious and
| irritated, Parsons sent in his own query:
| "Then you rejoned this man at Stetson's
| after leaving my house?'
Ibid sir. 1t was matter of charity
| and courtesy. He had come to see Mr..
| Stetson on important business, he said, and
/ had heard-had reason to believe-Mr.
| Stetson was not at home and probably
| would not be at home. AS a matter of fact.
! however, he did come, in carriage, while
1 was there, and later they drove away
| together
| "You knew of Stetsons not being at
! home. Why did you not tell him so be-
| fore?"
'That-possibly was an afterthought. Mr..
| President"
| HIN! and how long were you there, and
| what kept you after Stetsons home COM