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 Then he remembered that there had been girls
 * here who had n’t drunk anything, girls who someiow managed to move through the whole orgy calm

md sweet. His anger mounted. It was a hell of 1 way to treat a decent girl, to ask her to a dance vith a lot of drunkards and soused rats.

He was warm with anger. Reckless of the but:ons, he tore off his waistcoat and threw it on a
 * hair. The jeweled fraternity pin by the pocket
 * aught his eye. He stared at it for a moment and

hen slowly unpinned it. He let it lie in his hand ind addressed it aloud, hardly aware of the fact hat he was speaking at all. “So that’s what you stand for, is it? For snobs ind politicians and muckers. Well, I don’t want my more of you—not—one—damn—bit—more— >f—you.”

He tossed the pin indifferently upon the centerable, making up his mind that he would resign from he fraternity the next day.

When the next day came he found, however, that lis anger had somewhat abated. He was still inlignant, but he didn’t have the courage to go hrough with his resignation. Such an action, he
 * new, would mean a great deal of publicity, pubicity impossible to avoid. The fraternity would

.nnounce its acceptance of his resignation in The ianford Daily News”; and then he would either lave to lie or start a scandal.