The Ordway new era., 1909-12-24

She was alone and that IL the time of
times when opportunity knocks at a
young mans door.
Jones simply said. Can l carry you
home? Say yes. May!'
There was peculiar smile upon his
face. II was especially noticeable near
the eyes. where 1t began, then 1t rad
lated. like sun beams in n semi circle
toward his ears. Miss May. as the boys
all knew, smiled once in while herself.
Above all she liked to see others smile.
1t must have been Jones' smile that
captivated her. At any rate she ac-
cepted Mr.. Jones' offer and was seen In
his company several times after that.
For many days Mr. Frye seemed to
be forgotten. save for the occasional
thrusts of some OF his class mates. 1t
was mean trick to poke fun at a fell
low who Is for the first time in love.
but his associates didn't care.
The evening before the knife and fork
episode Mr. Jones had gotten crowd
together to go to Chillhowee. semi
nary four miles distant, where girls
were allowed to go to school and to
class with the boys. This crowd had
most enjoyable time and started
nome. They had left the greater part
of the distance behind them when they
were suddenly rocked" There Is a
vast difference between the rocking
your mother gives you and that which
comes from the bushes by the road
side. The one puts you to sleep, the
other puts you to your wits end to get
away In the quickest possible time
What hurt Jones most was that he
either had to run or get hit He i'm
al nd tI,nt \, ,t.,, 4,
Ing more than foul play on the part of
Mr.. Frye. And that concept carried in
It's train many others. Frye had not
| spoken to him since the night when
May had walked home with him, that
was one. He had grossly ignored him
at the table next morning, that was
| two. He felt sure he was talking about
| him, that was three. Beside these
| there were instances which could be
| construed as circumstantial evidence.
| ana the sum of these insults were
enough to Justify Mr.. Jones in his own
eyes FOR the deed he contemplated. the
| one which opened this story. After he
drew his knife that day, one of his
class mates had told him 1t was the
wrong thing to do and Mr.. Jones ack.
nowledged that 1t was. but he shut his
eeth and set his face in firm, offended
dignity.
| The news spread like fire. All about
the campus little crowds OF three and
four gathered and told each other,
each, his own version-"Frye hit
Jones and Jones pulled his knife."-
| Jones cursed Frye and Frye grappcd
a fork to stab him."-and many others,
as widely varied as the Axioms OF
Geometry are, from Esop's Fables.
The students had accorded the SEN
iors the privilege OF constituting
themselves into court, which was
permitted to try all cases OF mis- con-
duct. Here was n case which would
require their immediate attention. It
was not long before the news of the
outrage had penetrated the "Sanctum
Sanctorum' Of the Judge. who called
meeting of the court for that even
Ing. There was one man. a member
OF the court. who had not attained to
the dignity of senior. His name
was Holland.
Mr.. Holland was the college chap
iain. and one of the tallest mon the
sunny South ever produced. Incident
ally he was detective Of no mean
ability. When he got up IN chapel 10