Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-05
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The Paths Of Peace.

and tote a twenty-pound gun. He's been
sickly ever since he was kid"
That's the reason he's out all night
gambling over at the island?"
In spite of its mahogany flush a shade
or gray stole over the coarse face, but
1t was not yet time to surrender.
He only went out for a swim. You see
he can't sleep now like he could before
they began that d early morning horn
blowing up the HILL began the defender
but dropped it. That grim young fighting
face in front of his had too much in re-
serve.
That won't do. sir. You couldn't hire
him to take swim, with the frost thick
on the shore. 1 saw the boatload of six
coming back at reveille. Now, to cut this
short, l have reported your son absent
from every drill but one since the term be-
gan, and for rendering a certificate he
knew to be false. l have much more to
report of him now
But, captain, just minute. The old
the president-said 1 was just to see you
anu we could fix it up between u.s. 1 amt
saying the boys all right. only you see he
worked this game through all last year
without their making him drill, and he
thought he could work 1t again You'd do
the same If you were boy"
But Fame held up his hand. Mr.. Stet-
son. said he. lit is no longer a matter
of drill. 1t is a matter of decency. In
five minutes l mean to recommend his
expulsion. You can come and say what
you like to the president but
And here the great bell in the tower be-
gan its solemn toll of twelve. From halls
and corridors in the adjacent buildings the
students came trooping noisily forth. From
the doorway behind them three or four
young girls stepped into the sunlight and
glanced half curousy, half ttmidly at the
strangely assorted pair opposites in almost
every detail of feature, form and dress.
Then came the librarian, uSherng before
him a few laggards and holding open the
heavy doors for others still to follow. His
assistant came and went, and still he stood,
looking back, impatient And finally she
came, hurriedly and with downcast eyes,
and Fame lifted his cap and bowed low,
reverence she noticed with the merest up
ward sweep of the lids, the faintest incli-
nation of the head, and passed swiftly down
the broad steps and round the eastern
corner, followed by the eyes of two, at
least, until out of sight. /
And when Fame, without further word
to his visitor, would have started for the
office, the latter spoke. He was tremulous
now with wrath.
You may think. young Teller, that you're
cock of this walk" said he, but there 8
more'n one way of bringing a man to his
senses. You get that boy of mine into
trouble and, by God. 1 = settle you If it
takes a millionr Ire clapped his low
topped derby on his round head with vim
dictfve thump. Perhaps that will be one
way" and jerk of his head in the direc
ton taken by Miss Hoyt told too well what
he meant.
Fame was back in twinkling, his own
face now white with fury, his rattan
switch shaking in his clenched right hand
The big man backed off until held by the
railing. The librarian uplifted his hands.
oh don't-oh, please!' he cried, aghast
at such utterly unclassical symptoms. Prof.
Sharpe passing rapidly, seemed to read
the indications at glance, and ran to the
steps. He, too, had grown to like the
soldier, and with CONSERVATION in his eyes
saw that one available hand uplifted as
though to strike. Instantly he sprang and
seized the supple wrist Not that! Not
that, captain!'' he pleaded. Come with
me. l know this man." and sought to
draw him away But Fame stood fast,
though he lowered his arm. He was
quivering from head to foot and when he
found words to speak the hardened bully
above him on the steps shrank, despite his
assumed bravado.
Somewhere l have seen you-or your
double-before. Now, mark my words.
Threaten me all you please or dare, but
attempt to carry out that last threat
you know what l mean, you blackguard-
and you'll never bully again."
Then Sharpe led him, still quivering,
away.
Five days later there was lively dis
cussion at the meeting of the faculty. The
president, the board of professors and most
of the elder instructors were present. The
head of the military department had, as
yet, never been hidden to attend. When
later called upon to say how or why 1t had
not occurred to him that 1t was Captain
that he should have been invited, the pres
ident said he really didn't know. 1t never
had occurred to him, however, that SOL
der had any place in that body or would
even care to attend. There was no one,
therefore, to represent the case of what
might be called the general government VS..
Stetson. OF all the names on the under
graduate rolls this one stood pre-eminent
as having been most frequent before the
faculty. They all knew it, and knew no
good of it. They had heard. many of them,
that 1t was freighted now with charges
that were more serious than ever before.
They had heard, some of them, the stu
dents side of the story, for, accompanied
by one of the trustees, politician of much
prominence and some power, the father had
called upon several of their number. They
had heard a limited few, like Sharpe and
Lorimer, that the instructors charges, II
sustained, would warrant expulsion or pro-
longed suspension. They had heard, none
of them, the entire story, nor was it likely
they ever would, with Fame unsummoned.
They were assembled in some embarrass-
ment because in the minds of many of
them this thought was uppermost. Action
adverse to that particular student would
craystallize the antagonism of that partic-
ular trustee.
(To be continued tomorrow