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 broken Texas pony. Now my advice is to let this matter severely alone."

"But, you don't understand. You don't understand."

"But I do understand. I understand you fear that this match if consummated will wreck your school. He on that. You fear needlessly. No love affair ever broke up a school."

"This one will—," Miss Gregory persisted "and if you don't act, it will break yours up also."

"Never." Dr. Dennig shook his head pompously.

"Well, hear me out anyway then decide. This girl, I say, is a southerner, with spirit of the south in her being. She has fallen in love with a man of colored blood—fallen in love with Bennet—Truman Bennet."

Dr. Dennig sat back in his chair without a word as if stunned and gazed from the window across the campus arched over by stately elms of generations growth. Thus he sat for fully five minutes. Miss Gregory waited silently, the fingers of his hands touching as in the attitude of prayer. At the end of his meditations he turned to Miss Gregory, with:

"What would you have me do?" he finally asked. "Bennet is an estimable fellow, well liked, and would never be taken for one with colored blood in him. He is manly, too. I've watched him through his four years. Besides he finishes next month—graduates. We can't command him to cease loving the girl, if she cares for him. We can't expel him for that. It seems as if you must work on the