Show 152 STUDENT LIFE From this point the trail divided so our friends decided that there must have been two or more thieves Jerry decided to send the cowboy on the one trail while he followed the other After eating dinner they divided the pack and started out each taking a different trail Having changed hcrses Jerry was able to push on rapidly and by night he had covered many miles Still there were no signs cf the thief He stepped a short time to get supper and to allow his horse to rest A full mccn came up and he was again in the saddle Scon after midnight he decided to step and rest for a few hours Long before day light he was again on the trail It left the mountains and led across a broad level plain The dry weeds and grass rustled in the breeze The horizon shimmered in the sunrise Way off in the distance Jerry could make out the dim outlines of the river as it wound its path across the plain A lonely coyote trotted across the trail Just then it occurred to Jerry that it was the day for the big annual championship football game at his Alma Mater He began to wonder how things were at school how many cf the old boys were back and playing on the team what the possibilities were for victory and many other thoughts of a similiar nature Then he remembered how near they had come to beating their rivals the year before and how they actually had beaten them two years before when he and Tom Lawrence played halfbacks “Poor Tom” he thought “I wonder what became cf him” Jerrie’s mind wandered back three years He remembered how he had first gone east to school how he met Tom how they came to know each other and finally roomed together What a jolly good How he “played fellow Tom was the game” the day they beat their rivals what runs he made and such tackling! It seemed to Jerry that his happiness was complete that year The times he and Tom had together the friendship they developed! “Ah thought Jerry “It will be many a long day before the old school gets another man as good as Tom Then came a blank Tom had re- turned home that spring and the first time Jerry heard from him he was with his father on his way to look up some mining claims in Mexico Late in the summer Tom wrote again saying “My Father died yesterday morning of xm awfully sorry Typhoid but am afraid that I can't be back |