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 parents. Oh, think carefully, Preston, before it's too late; and, Preston, if you care to talk it over—I am always at your disposal, as you know. Good-by. Think it over.' So I moved off slowly in silence with head bowed, as one in deep thought!"

"Beautiful," said his hearers. "Beautiful!"

Meanwhile the story had spread over the campus and the town. Students in groups were talking and laughing about it wherever one looked. Even the village loafers might be seen discussing it on the corner of Witherspoon Street. And the negro waiters at the clubs were afraid to cross the campus at night, notwithstanding the story said it was a fictitious corpse.

"It'll get around to him that it's a leg pull," said Preston Brown sadly; "it is too bad, but it's sure to. Some of these conscientious yaps"

"Suppose I go and tell him that I've discovered it's all a leg pull," said Reddy Armstrong.