Show THE HOUSE WITH I THE GREEN SHUTTERS uz D I BY Copyright y GEORGE McClure l DOUGLASS Phillips Co r 1 0 CHAPTER Continued It was a wretched morning The wind Ind had veered once more an and a a. cold drizzle drizzle drizzle driz driz- of at rain was falling through a yellow fog The reflections of ot the street lamps In the sloppy pavement pa went down through spiral gleams to an Infinite depth of at miser misery Young Gourlays Gourlay's I I brain was aching from his last nl nights night's ht's debauch and his body was weakened with the want both of sleep and food The cold yellow mist chilled him to the bone What a fool I was to get drunk last nl night ht he thought Why am I 1 here Wh Why am I trudging through mud and misery to the university Wh What has It all aU got to do with me Oh what a fool I am what a a. fool Drown dull dun care said the devil In his ear car Ho lie took a sixpence from Crom his trouser pocket and looked down at the white bit of mone money In his hand till It was wet with the thc falling failing rain Then he went into a a. flashy tavern and standing by a sloppy bar drank sixpenny worth of ot cheap whisky ky It went to his head at nt once owing to his want of food and with a dull warm feeling In n his body he lurched oft off to his first lecture for forthe forthe forthe the day Ills His outlook on the world ha had changed The fog was now a n. comfortable comfortable comfortable comfort comfort- able yellowness Freedom and whisk whisky gang Taft Taff arc aft your ur dram he quoted to his own mind That stuff sture did me good Whisky's the boy to fettle you ou He was in his clement element the moment he entered the classroom It was a bear garden The most moral Individual has his days das of oC perversity when a malign fate compels him to show the worst he has In him A Scotch university class class- which is man many most moat moral individuals individuals- has a similar eruptive tendency when it gets into the hands handa of a weak sor It will behave o well enough h for a n. fortnight then a morning comes comE'S when nothing can control it This was a n. morning of ot the kind The rue lecturer who was an nn able man but a n. weakling had I begun b by apologizing for the condition I of oC his yo voice lee on the ground that ho had hada I a bad cold Instantly every ery man In the class was blowing his nose One fellow cHow of a n most snout who could trumpet like an elephant with a last triumphant snort sent hi his handkerchief across the room When hen called to account account ac nc- ac- ac count for his hlf conduct neal Really sir he said er oom er oom er bad oom-bad bad cold Up ros rose rosO a n. universal sneeze Then the roughing began to the tune of ot John Browns Brown's bod body lies Ues a In the grave rave which no man seemed to ting sing but t e every everyman everyman ry man could hear They were 1 playing the tune with their feet fet The lecturer glared dared with white re repugnance repugnance re- re pu at nt his hla tormentors Young Gourlay flung himself heart and foul soul Into the cruel batting balling It was partly from his usual love of showing off partly from flo the drink still seething within him but largely largel also as a a. re reaction reaction re- re action from his mornings morning's 8 misery This was another way of oC drowning reflection tion The morbidly gloomy one moment moment moment mo mo- ment often orten shout madly madl on the next At last the lecturer plunged wildly at atthe atthe atthe the door and flung It open Go he shrieked and pointed In superb dis dis- missal A hundred and firt fifty barbarians sat where they were and laughed at nt him and he must needs come back to the platform with a ba and vindictive vindictive tive thc glover glo Io cr He was Just turning as it changed when young joung Gourlay put his hands to his mouth and bellowed doo Cock do dle-do Ere the roar could swell the lecturer had leaped to the front of the rostrum with flaming eyes Mr Gourlay he screamed creamed furious furiously you OU there then sir will lo to me for you ou ap apologize this outrage o at nt the end of or the hour There was a a. womanish shrillness In Inthe the tho scream a 0 kind of oC hysteria on the stretch that contrasted with his big threat might have provoked them at other times to a a. roar of oC laughter But there was a n. sincerity in his rage rase today that rose above its faults faulis s of manner and an nn immediate silence took the room the the more impressive for the former noise Every eye turned to Gourlay lI He sat gaping at the lecturer If Ie he had been swept to the anteroom anteroom anteroom ante ante- room there and then he would have been heen cowed b by the suddenness of his own change from a loud tormentor In Inthe Inthe inthe the company of others other to a n silent culprit culprit culprit cul cul- In a a. room alone And apologies would havo have been read ready to tumble out while he was thus loosened by surprise and fear tear Unluckily he had hall time to think and the longer he thought the thu more sullen Bullen he became It was only an accident that led to his discovery discover while the rest escaped and that the others should escape when they were just jUt as much to blame as he wn was was wan an injustice that made him hint furious Isis His anger was vas equally divided between the cursed mischance Itself the teacher who had Jumped on him to so 0 suddenly and the theother theother other rowdies who had bad escaped to laugh at his discomfiture he had the same came burning resentment to them then all chuckling fel fel- When hen he thought of ot his students low the they seemed to engross his rage rase when he thought of oC the mishap mishal mishap mis mis- hap hal he damned It and nothing else when he thought of the lecturer he felt c he had no rage to fling away upon others oth oth- ers the ers the took It all As his mind shot backward and forward In an angry gloom It suddenly encountered the Image of his father ather Not a a. professor sor of the lot he reflected could stand the look of ot black blac Gourlay And he wouldn't knuckle under either so ro he wouldn't HP lie came of or a u hardy stock He lie show them Ile HI wn wasn't nt going to dirt ll-dirt dirt for an any man ratan Let him punI punish punish pun pun- I ish h all or 01 none non for the they had all been kicking up a row why row why big Cunningham Cunning Cunning- ham had harl been braying like an ass only a a. before he orl He spied Armstrong and Gillespie glinting across at him with a curious look they look they were wondering whether he had courage enough to stand to his guns uns with a professor He lie I knew mew the meanIng meaning mennIng mean mean- Ing of th the look and resented It lie He was on his hie mettle before ore them It seemed The fellow tellow who had swaggered at the last laH night about what he would do It if a D. professor Jumped on him mustn't prove pro wonting wanting In th the present trial beneath the eyes eye of at those on whom he had hud Imposed Impose his blatancy When wo we think of or what Gourlay did that Ita tiny day we must remember that he was soaked In alcohol not merely with his mornings morning potation notation but with the dregs 8 of previous carousals And the dregs of drink a thorough toper will 11 tell you never nc leave him He Is drunk on Monday with his S Saturdays Saturday's de Ie- Ie bauch As of Barbie Bar Bar- nr- nr ble bie put Iut H It once When n u body's hardup hardup hardup hard- hard up his a n consolation If It that bo be so so- so and so-and and remember was an tn expert rt whose opinion n nIn on In this matter matter matter mat mat- ter Is entitled to the highest credence credence- I If that be bo so o It proves the strength nn and persistence tence of oC a thorough alcoholic Impregnation impregnation Im im- im or as called It of or ofa ofa ora a a good SO soak In young Gourlay's Gourlays s case at nn any rate the impregnation was enduring and complete lIe He was like a 3 rag roC steeped In fusel oil oil As the end en of oC the hour drew near he sank deeper In his dogged sullenness When the class 1 streamed from the large e door on the right lio ho turned aside asido to the little tittle anteroom on the left loft with an nn insolent In swing awing of or tho the shoulders He lie Hethe knew the fellows were watching him curiously curIously he he felt their eyes upon his bark back And therefore a as he went through h the little door he Mood stood for a moment on his right foot and waggled his left on a level with his hip behind In a n. vulgar derision of ot them the professor professor pro pro- fessor and the whole situation That was waR a line fine taunt flung back at them There Is nothing on earth more vindictive vin vin- than a n. weakling When he gets JetRa a chance he takes s revenge for everything everything every ever thing his hla past cowardice co forced him to endure The timid lecturer angry at atthe atthe atthe the poor figure fiure he had cut on the platform platform plat plat- form was glad to take It out of ot young oun Gourlay for the wrong doing of the class Gourlay was their scapegoat oat The lecturer r had no longer over a n hundred hundred hun hun- dred drell men to deal with but one lout only sullen yet et shrinking In the room before him Instead of coming to the point at nt once he hc played with his hia vic vic- tim It was less legg from Intentional cruelty cruel cruel- t ty than from an Instinctive desire to recover his lost feeling o of superiority The cla class s was WOR his master hut but here was wa one of ot them he could cowe cove at nt nn any rate Well ell h he asked bringing his thin tips finger together and flinging one thigh across the other Gourlay shuffled his feet teet uneasily lIy Yes Inquired the other enjoying his dl discomfiture Gourlay lowered gate ate was this to gang sang on Why In couldn't he let leta a platter blatter out of or his thin mouth and ha hn done wit Im waiting said the lecturer The words I I rose roe in Gourlay Gour Gour- In lay but hut refused to pass his throat No he wouldn't so 80 he wouldn't t He would ouM see ce the tut lecturer far Car enl 1 enough h. h ere ore he gave ve nn an apolo apology before It was expressly re re- re Oh that's the line you po go o on on la it said the lecturer nodding his heal head ns as It If Ithe ithe he had hall sized 1 up n a curious animal I Isee pee see r I F fee You add odd contumacy to In Insolence insolence In- In do you ou Gourlay was i not quite sure what contumacy contumacy con con- meant and the uncertainty added to his anger There were others making a n noise besides me he blurted I dont don't see seewhy seewhy why wIn I should be blamed for It nil all Oh Oh you 1 0 dont don't see set seth why h you should be had up Indeed I 1 think well we'll bring brine you 1 to a n. different conclusion Yes ls I think so FO Gourlay being forced forcell to stand always on the one spot felt himself swaying 8 In Ina a a. drunken stupor He lie blinked ed at nt the lecturer like Uke an an angry r owl the owl tho blinking bUnking regard of a sodden sadden mind yet et fiery tIery with witha a n. spiteful rage Ills His wrath was rising rl nn and falling like lace a quick tide He lie would have hn liked one moment to give a n rein to the Gourlay temper and let the lecturer lecturer lecturer lec lec- have ha It hot and strong the strong the next he was quivering In a a. cowardly horror horrer of oC the desperate attempt he had so nearly made Cur Curse e his tormentor Wh Why did ho keep him here when his head was aching so badly Another taunt was enough to spring his drunken drunk drunk- en rage I wonder what you think you came cameto cameto to college collee for said the lecturer I have been looking at nt your our records In Inthe tho the class They're There the worst I ever saw And youre you're not content with that It seems You add misbehavior to gross stupidity To hell wl wi ye e said Gourlay There Thereas was teas a a. feeling In the room as asIf asIf asif If the air was stunned The silence throbbed The lecturer who had risen sat down Budden suddenly as If going oln at the knees and went white about the gills Somo Some men would have swept the tho ruffian with a ahurst burst hurst o of generous wrath a n few ew might have pitied In their hut but anger but this young oung Solomon was thin and acid a a. vindictive rat Unable to rowe cote the tho Insolent Insolent insolent inso Inso- lent in present and full blooded rage he fell feU to thinking of the great machine machine ma ma- chine he might set et In motion to destroy him hint As s he sat there thre In silence his eyes eyeR grew and a a. sleek rev revenge no peeped from the thc corners of or his mouth Ill show him what Ill I'll do to him for or orthis this this' Is a a. translation of oC his hla thought He lie was thinking with great reat satisfaction tion to himself of oC how the would deal with young youns oun Gourlay Gourlay grew weak with fear the moment moment moment mo mo- ment the words escaped him The They had been a a. thunderclap to his own ears care lIe He had been thinking them but but but-as as he pleaded far within him now now had had never meant to utter them they had he been n off ort the surge of ot cowardly wrath seething up within him longing to burst hurst lint hut afraid It was the taunt of or stupidity that fired his drunken vanity to blurt them forth The lecturer eyed eed him sideways where h he shrank In fear You ma may go 0 ho said paid at last I will report your our conduct conduct conduct con- con duct to tho the university Continued tomorrow |