Show STUDENT LIFE 198 bre insignia of conditions removed and sometimes — work well done The bitter anticipation of fellows drifting far and wide on the uncertain currents of time was slowFor himly finding character self — well he was a selfmade institution — a man of tjie world and his own welfare was not tobe regarded with any particular anxiety The last roll was called on a beautiful morning in the June time Garrett — damned good man hut lie lost the case — was graduated too that identical day As the film of fond recollection rolled section on there came a clear-cthat approached the end and formed a fitting grand finale to an illustrious career in its entirety In the white density of his floating pipe smoke there was cast the delicate facial contour of a beautiful woman — the embodiment of a marvelous personality — intellectual true and proud What he saw was the perfect curve the grace the poise and classic braids of auburn liair wound round a head like a crown of glory Alice Montgomery was the most beautiful character he had ever known The last hours during an evening in the world of worth-whil- e things they Many happy spent together old of historic an suggestions walls and a campus lovers’ lane — the girl made the The picsetting most complete ture was in perfect harmony with the consonant music that floated away like the sweet scent of roses Platonic in on a summer breeze ut ivy-cover- ed true and tried spirit All these happy years had they been unwavering faithful friends “Some day — if I am right successcould you be ful — think you That was what he more?’ asked her If Jack had but one regret in the world it was not by reason of the answer Three years nearly had unrolled from the sack cloth of time since he left the girl — his eternal all — behind And he drifted forth into the realm of a trackless waste far away in the still solitudes of the magnetic northland The change of scene was instantly shifted from an atmosphere resplendent with the poetry of life beautiful characters and marvelous source of temporal joys Friends sentiment and the spirit of legendary lore had been swept away like an autumn leaf in November chill and there was portrayed on smoke screen the subject of a weird picture darksome in outline and in detail indistinct It was illustrative of the gloomiest phase of life that that young character had ever known The last heavy snowfall had enveloped the surrounding hills and ‘‘cricks” with an ermine shroud Every pine twig and birch tree was heavily laden beneath its mantle of white and as the calm bitter-cold breeze moaned through the timber belt it seemed to carry a song of distress A little clearing revealed in the early morning starlight the sombre shades of a |