Show Student Life 7 I swear unto you Jack “Yet you say you are inno—I am innocent I swear by — ” cent” He looked around the small “Absolutely The confession room as though in search of of the perpetrator alone could something by which to make save me That confession must his oath binding His eyes fell not be made I’d die first You see I must go at once” upon the athletic sweaters “A” the swear “I'll by “Not Why man He crossed over to where you’re exhausted ill starved they lay on top of the desk and You must remain I’ll see that laid his hand upon the large the posse does not find you if block letter the other hand he they come Their coming at all is very improbable” raised above his head “Are you sure Jack” Dave “By this A” he began solquestioned eagerly “Can you emnly “the emblem of our Alma Mater and by the memory hide me?” “Yes Now let’s get busy of my own mother I swTear that body to-nig- We’ll remove that beard we’ll burn your clothes we’ll make a new man of you Does any- I am innocent of crime !” “It is enough!" Jack exclaim- ed “Then hurry Jack they may be here at any moment” Dave entreated “You are not going to leave this camp “I must I’ll be caught!” “Why not give yourself up An innocent man shouldn’t fear to-nig- the law” ht body up where you have been know that you were once a student of the A C?” “No” “Then I have it ht” : We’ll make a college chum of you Off with that beard” Jack began his task immediately and at the end of an hour the transformation was complete Instead of the weary “The law is no respector of persons — if they are poor persons —an innocent man would famished desperado a handbe hanged as quickly as a some college athlete wearing guilty one if he were proved the emblem of his success was guilty I tell you nothing could quietly discussing old times save me except the capture of with his friend Jack made another trip to the the real slayer” “Your running away simply cook house and returned with a frugal meal which he served’ fastens the crime upon you” “Nothing could add to the cir- to his old friend after which cumstantial evidence The case he led him into the vast storecould not be made clearer room where goods of every against me My gun inflicted description were piled in more the wounds a piece of my hat or less confusion all over the was found in the dead man’s spacious floor The two felt hand he was my enemy every their way to a remote corner where they found a large pile thing points to me” |