Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-06-24

was possibly the reason why the smell
VI Tue raw corn liquor with which the
GAoln feeked gripped him so f1ercely.
De mat as 1t may, he could make but
d Aeeole resistance when the tipsy
iAoultta1neer pressed him to drink; and
'no elght barrier went down altogether
N VIZ ne saw the appealing look in
- an eyes. Straightway he OWNED
sn01 mere would be consequences for
ner When he was gone if the maudlin
oelnoh should be aroused in her father.
30 ne put the tin cup to his lips and
coughed and strangled over a single
sWalloW OF the fiery, nauseating stuff;
olo this for the girls sake, and then
rose and fed away from the mountain
with his heart ablaze and a fearful
ciamor as Of the Judgment trumpet
sounding in his ears.
The next morning he came hollow
eyed to his breakfast and when the
cnance offered, besought his father to
give him one of the manv bows iobs in
Ine iron plant during the summer va
Ce'1lon asked and obtained. And nei-
t,ier Tie motel on the mountain top nor
Tie mover cabin under the second cliff
saw MIN more the long summer
through.
CHAPTER X
1t was just before the Christmas hol-
luayS' IN MS fourth year of the sectar-
ian school, that Tom Gordon was ex
PEELED. Writing to the Reverend Silas
at the moment of Toms dismissal. the
principal could voice only his regret
and disappointment 1t was a most sim
guar case. During his first and second
years Thomas had set a high mark and
mad attained to it. On the spiritual side
he had been somewhat non committal.
to be sure, but to offset this, he had
deeply interested in the preparatory
theological studies, or at least he had
appeared to be.
But on his return from his first
summer spent at home there was a
marked change in him, due, so thought
DOCTOR IolllVar, to his association with
the rougher class of Workmen in the
iron mlIIS. 1t was as if he had sud-
den1y grown older and and harder, and
the dlSclpLne of the school, admirable
as the Reverend Silas knew it to be,
was not severe enough to reform him.
1t grleVes me more than I can tell
you, my dear brother, to be Obliged to
confess that we can do nothing more
for him here" was the concluding par
agraph of the principals letter, land
to add that his continued presence
with us is menace to the morals Of
the school When l say that the Of
tense for which he is expelled is by no
means the first and that it is the dou-
BILE one of gambling and keeping in
toxicating liquors in his room, you will
understand that the good repute of
Beersheba was at stake, and there was
no other course open to u.s."
Thomas Jefferson turned his back on
three and a half years of Beersheba,
with hot tears in his eyes and an angry
word On his lips. The Pintsch lights
were burning brightly in the Pullman,
and these-and the tears-blinded him.
Some Of the sections in the middle Of
the car were made down for the night,
and while he was stumbling in the
wake of the porter over the shoes and
the hand bags left in the aisle, the
train started.
Lower ten, sah," said the black boy,
and went about his business in the lin
en- locker. But Tom stood balancing
himself with the swaying of the car
and staring helplessly at the occupant
of lower twelve, a young girl in a gray
travelling coat and hat, sitting with her
face to the window.
why, you-somebody!" she exclaim-
ed, turning to surprise him in the act
of glowering down on her. DO you
know, I thought there might be just
one chance in a thousand that you'd go
home for Christmas, so I made the poc-
ter tell me when we were coming to
Beersheba. Why don't you sit DOWN."
Tom edged into the opposite seat and
shook hands with her, all in miserable,
comfortless silence. Then he blurted
out:
IF I'd had any idea you were on this
train, I'd have walked
Ardea laughed, and for all his mis-
cry he could not help remarking how
much sweeter the low voice was grow
ing, and how much clearer the blue OF
her eyes was under the forced light of
the s-globes.
You are just the same rude boy,
aren't you?" she said. leniently. Are
there no girls in Beersheba to teach
you how to be nice?"
st didn't mean it that way" he has
tened to say Tn always saying the
wrong thing to you. But II you only
knew, you wouldn't speak to. me; much
less let me sit here and talk to YOU
IF I only knew what? Perhaps you
would better tell me and let me judge
for myself" she suggested; and out of
the past came a flick of the memory
whip to make him feel again that she
was UNNECESSARILY his senior,
I'm expelled" he said. bluntly.
"Oh!" For full minute, as it SEEM
ed to him, she looked steadfastly out
of the window at the wall of blackness
fitting past, and the steady drumming
of the wheels grated on his nerves and
got into his blood. When it was about
to become unbearable she turned and
gave him her hand again. I'm just as
sorry as I can bel" she declared, and
the slate-b1ue eyes confirmed it
1T was this way: three of the boys
came to my room to play cards-be-
cause their rooms were watched. I
didn't want to play-oh, I'm none too
in answer to something
in her eyes that made him eager to tell
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