The New Boy at Hilltop

is closed eyes. A window was open and the lowered shade billowed softly up and down, letting into the dark

on of repairing it; that Mr. Whipple had been sent to the hospital at Lynnminster, seriously but not dangerously hurt; that Grafton Hyde had received no damage and was about this forenoon wea

s were trifling, a couple of scorched fingers and a pair of badly inflamed eyes, but that nevertheless he wo

ntered and tiptoed across the floor. Kenneth looked for a moment and grinned; then he chuckled; then he threw

k like a foo

ed his composu

o be rude," he sai

ed Grafton. "Besides, I'll

estioningly across his eyebrows. "There's nothing he

lips and slowly overspread

s," he said, chuckling. "Do

is to take a pencil and rub it over and no one can tell. I'm going to try it."

of tired, thoug

uring which he played nervous

-it's all right about-about that, y

have," mutt

ng that I did to you. I-I don't know why I cared

as he mad

m to be suspend

th honestly. "It-it was

ou not to blow on me the other day.

th embarrassedly. "I-I didn't like

now, I wanted to-to tell you that I was sorr

" said Kenneth. "I

hey merely avoided looking at each other and maintained an em

broken by a kn

called

e gayly as he crossed the floor. "The Society of

andy," answ

King we ask him if it's hot enough for him! I wouldn't be surprised if he folded his pyjamas like the Arabs-that's all he saved, you know-and

th no

l keep a place warm for you, and a month is just a nice vacation. Wouldn't min

ow. Will th

ng against you now, have they

t, I guess. But I wish-G

in and give 'em fits, Kenneth. And-one of you fello

e added soberly, "is that now that Kenneth hasn't any eyebrows they may take his head for the ball!" Kenneth was up the next day feeli

e're responsible for you while you're here, my boy, and I think you'd better keep

one and Kenneth out of the game the team's plight was desperate. But there was no help for it, and so Jim Marble went to

r again in an improvised bedroom, which had previously been a disused recitation room, at the top of School Hall. Most of th

nnouncements of much

ho is a graduate of Princeton, will take the place left vacant by the resignation of Mr. Whipple, who was so unfo

satisfaction. The doctor picked up another slip of

eived from Mr. John Garwood, of Cleveland, and Mr. Peter L. Hyde, of Chicago, a draft for the sum of one hundred thousand dollars for the erection of a large dormitory capable of housing the entire student body. The generous gift seems to me especially, singu

because they found out that he was the son of one of the country's wealthiest men. But true it is

esult Kenneth produced a letter which he had received from his father the day

k I had better satisfy myself on that point, and so you may look for me at the school on Saturday next. Your mother is anxious t

merits, and I wanted you to. Then, too, we feared that Hyde's boy, because of the misunderstanding between Peter Hyde and myself, might try to make it uncomfortable for you. That alarm see

' of ours and it ended up with his coming home to dinner with me. So you see you did more than save a professor's life; you brought about a renewal of an old friendship. After dinner we got to talking it over and decided the least we could do was to replace that build

n he had finished reading, "now I

hes?" aske

et it, it had bust open and was full of swell silver-backed things. I thought at first I'd got

, "I thought they loo