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CHAPTER XX
hUGH avoided the Nu Delta house for the remainder of the term and spent more time on his studies than he had since he lad entered college. The result was, of course, Eat he made a good record, and the A that Henley ^ave him in English delighted him so much that he ilmost forgot his fraternity troubles. Not quite, lowever. During the first few weeks of the vacaion he often thought of talking to his father about ^u Delta, but he could not find the courage to de¬ troy his father’s illusions. He found, too, that he ould n’t talk to his mother about things that he lad seen and learned at college. Like most of lis friends, he felt that “the folks would n’t nderstand.”

He spent the first two months at home working n the farm, but when Norry Parker invited him o visit him for a month on Long Island Sound, lugh accepted the invitation and departed for the ager to see Norry again, but he was even lore eager to see New York. He had just celerated his twentieth birthday, and he considered it Rh
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