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The fear had come from his over-burdened conscience. "Everything is all right, but Teola wants to see you. Could you go down for a little while?" Dan nodded and turned with a happier heart toward the Rectory, leaving Frederick looking for "Spuddy," "Shorts," and "Swipes."
"Well, ju just look at him," growled Spuddy in a disgusted tone; "he ought to freeze stiff. Look how his le legs wab wabble! They lo look like four four " "Shut up, Spud," cried Shorts. "He's only got got two legs. What the mat matter with you?... You're as drunk as he is. Don't let him drop on those stones!" "I ain't drunk," retorted Preston. "What's the mat matter with you, yourself?
He would comfort, and tell her not to worry cheer her, until she could smile again and be happy. Shorts, Swipes and Spuddy had broken the laws of the fraternity. Rather than suffer the disgrace of leaving it, they had elected a severe punishment. "I'd rather be cut to pieces, boys," Swipes hiccoughed, turning upon the grave seniors, "than let my mother know what a beast I've been.
"It's an angle worm," continued the speaker, "and you're going to eat it.... Don't be afraid, 'Spuddy, you needn't wiggle, you are going to have one, too," he added the last part of the sentence, seeing a shudder pass over the form of the other blindfolded boy. "Keep your mouths wide open," shouted a senior.
"That's just a little reminder for you to do as you are told, Spuddy," the wielder of the "Mazuka" laughed. "Here's the dinner, boys," cried Hall, "and I bet you can't imagine what we've brought you.... Do you know what that is, 'Shorts'?" Brown shivered, for something snake-like and cold was drawn across his cheek.
"For the love of all that's good, Shorts," groaned Spuddy, "let me get into the house and change my clothes.... There goes Swipes again in the snow. Get up, fool, here's the 'Captain." "To to the devil with the 'Captain," muttered Swipes. But Dan's next sentence completely awoke the senses of all save Swipes. He only grasped it dimly through the cobwebs of his drunken brain.
"Take him first, Captain," he said, with a twist in his voice. "He's drunk." Spuddy hung limp on the window-sill for an instant, and was then gathered into Dan's long arms. Shorts' bleared eyes saw the little chap handed safely to the earth, and the ladder again creaked under the upward steps of the big freshman.
The very moment after he had fallen asleep, it seemed to Swipes, Shorts was pulling him out of bed, and the room was full of smoke. Spuddy was sleeping in the next chamber, and the first sound came to him in a haze-like dream. He thought he heard a roar of thunder, and rain descending upon the roof. Never mind. He was safe in bed, and had just escaped expulsion from his fraternity.
I have something funny to tell you." "I have something to tell you, too," breathed Teola. "Is it pleasant?" demanded the boy, bending and forcing the lowered eyes to his. Teola shook her head. "Then we will leave it until to-morrow," he exclaimed. "I'll tell you my news. Shorts, Spuddy and Swipes are in disgrace at the fraternity.
"It's a great note," muttered Shorty Brown, "that we have to wait on those big lubbers of sophomores and seniors. I'd as soon die as to run down the hill after their letters." "You might as well go, Shorts," put in Spuddy Preston; "you'll only get yourself disliked if you don't, and you'll be made to go in the end. The blessing of it all is that they did the same thing in their turn."
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