Evening star., 1934-07-15

The tall good looking youth came forward
smiling. Welcome, Brother Manwaring. It's
mighty nice to have you with us again"
Thanks, Bill Say, you a lot, fellah
Bill looked q bit uncomfortable. ~HOws
thst?"
Didn't you break leg last commencement
and give a chance to meet Miss wayne2"
"Oh :" Bill lit cigarette. forgot to offer
the pack to the guest slumnus. yeah, re-
member"
"Remember?" doomed Arthur you ought
to remember. Mighty splendid girl Bill"
"Yes. she is,' said Bill.
Mainwaring looked at the crowd of young
men with eyes positively glowing with q secret.
"Y'know, fellows, I've attended a lot of War
wick graduations, but this one means more to
me than any of the others. And that includes
my own, tool"
Excuse me, Brother Mainwaring" said Bill
quickly TT just remembered. I'm on the
kitchen staff and it's time for me to get to
work"
Sure go ahead, Bill was on the kitchen
staff myself. Know how it Is We used to get
five month, applied against the house bnl.
Bet it's more now"
A FTER Bill had gone into the kitchen
Arthur chatted a while with the Others
then excused himself to go to his room. There
he telephoned Sally-but disappointment
In store for him.
81 can't go to dinner with you, Arthur I'm
awfuly sorry but just can't It's the sorority
senior dinner, and I've just got to be there"
Then surely I can have breakfast with you
in the morning."
"Of course, Arthur"
But nevertheless he went into the shower
room almost overcome by gloom. He had
counted so on dinner with Sally: there was so
much to plan. He had never felt entirely free
to bring all his plans into the open-but now
that Sally was almost graduated
Arthur would have been even more disturbed
If the running water Of the shower hadn't pre-
vented his hearing the serious conversation in
the next room. In the next room-a darkened
room-were three miserable freshmen to whom
commencement meant nothing but more work
and the terrors of initiation into the secrets Of
Delt.
who's in the shower?" whispered one
''I think it's Mainwaring, the big-s alum"
Better pipe down. We're not supposed to
talk in here. He might hear u.s."
mot while the showers on. Anyhow he
wouldn't peep, would hep"
The fattest of the frosh sighed wearily. ST
dunno He seems to take all this fraternity
business seriously. Gets kick out of it.
Say!-" The hefty frst-year man paused.
Say, why couldn't We hdnap him?"
"Mainwaring? Don't be nuts
well, why not? The rule is, it's got to be
an upperclaSsman or an alumnus-and Main-
warnings alum, amt hep"
It'd probably be easier than gettin' anybody
else. all right He wouldn't expect it. But
wouldn't he be Sore?"
"Mainwaring? Gosh no. He'd probably get
kick out of it. It'd make him one of the boys
and he likes that"
There was significant silence in the dark
ened room. Three froSh brains strained in
black silence.
They'll hold up our pins if We don't make
good" the fat one warned in a sepulchral voice.
Lets make him the goat then"
''Shh . . he's turned the water off" They
listened until the sound of Mainwarings slip
pers had faded down the hallway. Say is it
true he copped of Bill Simpsons grip"
Nav. Bill used to go with her once in
while. but that's all. Bills gone with lot of
danes, like any foot ball player"
The darkness caught trio Of soft sighs. A
trio Of dreams about being senior and foot
ball player and going with lot of DANES.
A T DINNER Arthur almost forgot his disap-
pointment at the loss of his engagement
with Sally. 1t was mighty fine. having dinner
with q bunch of young bucks like this Set a
fellow up. Arthur complimented himself on his
ability to make them lose their stiffness to
make them act as naturally as they would if
he were 20.
The old songs made his eyes little misty It
was a grand old fraternity, and q grand old
schools And now Warwick was giving him
Sally. too. Warwick would always mean a lot
to the both of them Next year at commence
ment time they would return together.
After dinner he remembered suddenly that in
his rush to get away from the ONCE he had
forgotten to instruct Jasper about that Con-
soiidated matter. He decided to long distance
Jasper at his home
But although Arthur got upstairs. into his