Show 25-- STUDENT LIFE 1 ion his life his heaven everything The girl was taken off her feet by the impetuosity of it all and was glad of her pedestal Then love ordinary human love came into it and made him declare his idolatry She called him foolish told him that he had imagined distance between them which did not exist all in a way that he almost forgot his opjH)rtunity to speak to her he saw because he could not help seeing another man — ” lie stopped stood up and suggested coldly that tliev The girl return to the house sobbed and they went silently down the walk Vi ' t ' ' v? A man camping out in the mountains to recover strength wasted in overwork wandered down a little stream and came upon a camp in a A rust stained small clearing wedge tent with one front llap tied up stood in the center Around it were scattered the weather beaten sun bleached articles of a prospector's outfit The man out of curiosity drew nearer and looked inside the tent He uttered an exclamation stared a moment and stepped inside An old man with bleached grav hair and beard and with a pallor that shone out through the bronze of his face lay His eyelids upon a rude bed raised and disclosed a nair of sharp black alive eyes which as they in took the intruder took on a look of happiness and recognition “The kid with the books at Johnson’s he said weakly store in 18— “Did you go to college?” Without waiting for an answer he continued “I’m glad vou came Stranger I’ve been already to pass in my checks for a week but I didn’t like to sluiftle off here alone Rats you know and that — and that kind of stuff” The stranger talked hopefully of doctoring him and getting him back to civilization alive but the wasted weather beaten figure belied the words The old man as if he knew that he had no words to waste in contradicting him continued very weakly : “There is only one thing that troubles me There was a woman once I might have been mistaken God pity me if I was” And the black dreamy spot of life in the eyes went out Oh yes I nearly forgot to add that the man went back and hunted the girl up and put her back on her jedestal or perhaps not exactly S Lee that but — anyway — |