Show STUDENT LIFE 174 confided in Sadie “Who said this to you?” she asked “Jack Conroy” was the reply “I thought so” she went on “that guy never did like me for a long time but I know why” Then “Sissy” became confidential and he told Sadie everything that he told “Skinny” and that “Skinny” had told the “gang” When he finished Sadie sighed and said “So your folks are sporty people lie went and are they? Well then of course you don’t want anything to do with me My father is dead —died a drunkard and mother and I live by what she makes selling stuff to the college guys The guys think I’m a ‘grafter’ hut I’ll show Jack Conray who is a ‘grafter’ I hate him” she finished bv clinching her fists and stamping her foot in really feminine style As davs went bv and the warm spring months came on “Sissy” and Sadie were seen much together on the campus The “gang” were not so vociferous in their “guying” but Jack Conroy alone became bitter in his remarks to m 7 “Sissy” It might be of interest to note that during this entire time the Brown househould aristocratic knew nothing of Arthur Wellington Edgerly’s actions at college He knew his mother so he wrote only of professors classes examinations and prizes and she — well she thought she knew her son It will be necessary to go back into a little of Ilefley’s history to know why Jack Conroy Sopho more was so bitter against the little Irish girl and was always makremarks ing uncomplimentary about her to “Sissy” When was a Freshman he Conroy became enamored of the smiles of the little Irish lassie and was her willing servant About this time the little “bun shop” was burglarized and a considerable quantity of “nick-nacks- ” taken but there were no clues as to the guilty parties Conroy was particularly bitter against the person “who would rob a widow But woman” a week or so afterwards Sadie and he had a “fall out” and had not spoken since so the campus gosTo outward appearsip went ances the thief or thieves were never discovered However had one been able look “behind to any the scenes” they would have seen a brave little Irish girl make a big fellow with a coward’s heart confess The girl knew her mother’s wrath would not let her keep the secret so the mother never knew The girl and the fellow drove a bargain He was to pay her for the goods taken and she was to put the money in the cash drawer He could make payments whenever he had ready cash and for all this she promised to keep as a secret the identity of the thief No wonder Jack Conroy hated Sadie— he was the thief By the time of the arrival of “Sissy” on Hefley’s campus the whole incident was almost forgotten for Conroy had paid the debt and the girl kept the promise The |