Left End Edwards

st parallel to the railroad, past where a pair of stone gate-posts guarded the entrance to the Academy. From the gate a drive went winding upward

"the big one in the centre. I

t's a pretty good looking place, isn't it? What's

ll it. That was the original building. I remember when there wasn't any others. The one to the left of it's Hensey Hall. The fellows that lives there are called 'Chickens,'

riage turned to enter the gate and their view

n front of a broad flight of sto

g in the morning. Just walk right in through the door and you'll find the office on your right. They'll look after you there. Much oblige

unlighted corridor. An open door on the right revealed a room divided by a railing, in front of which were a half-dozen wooden chairs and beyond which were two desks, some fi

thin, high voice. "What are the names, please?" As he spoke he took

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Pennsylvania. Pare

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tfully and sympathetically. "A great misfortune,

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extracting one and laying it very exactly above the one on which he had been setting down the information supplied by Steve. For a moment he silently compared the two. Then

my trunk hasn't

ween the two broad windows and spoke into the transmitter: "Mrs. Calder? Edwards, 12 Billings, hasn't his trunk yet. Will you have his room made up,

s,

unk, too, i

s,

ment aside. "That is all, Edwards. I trust you will like the school. Should you want anything you may com

man's interrogations and at last

cond floor at the further end. Supper is served at six o'clock in the dining-room in Wendell, which is the last building in the other

reached by a single stone step, above which hung an electric light just beginning to glow wanly in the early twilight. Inside, two slate steps led to the first floor level and here a fireproof door divided the staircase well from the corridor. A flight of stone stairs took them to the second floor. "Rooms 11 to 20" was inscribed on the door and Steve pushed it open and le

rn looking place at first glance, but doubtless the fact that the two beds were unmade, that the window-seat was empty of cushions and that the two slim chiffon

r things around it'll loo

tty good," he said. "I hope Mrs. Thingamabob w

d Tom. "There isn't an

rwards discovered, to hold photographs or small pictures which the rules prohibited them from placing on the walls. The walls were painted a light buff. The furniture consisted of two single-width beds, two chiffoniers, a study table and two straight-backed chairs. The beds were against the opposite walls, the table in the geometrical centre of the rug, the c

teve, "where we ar

. For one thing, it was too far away. Then, too, he didn't see how twenty fellows were going to wash at six bowls. Tom, however, promptly demonstrated how one fellow could do it by returning to Number 12 and bringing back his wash-cloth. In his absence Steve had been experimenting with the liquid soap apparatus with which each bowl was supplied,

ngly occupying the entire first floor of the building, and held what appeared to be hundreds of tables. Only four of them were occupied now, two across the hall from the door and two at one end. A boy of about seventeen or eighteen, wearing an apron and carrying a tray of dishes, saw them, and, setting down his burden, conducted them to one of the tables nearby. There were

, conversed together in whispers. "It's a whaling big room," sai

ever it is," replied Tom.

fins, milk and cocoa, preserves and cookies. By the time they were half through their supper most of the others had finished and hurried away, removing much of the embarra

s," he said. "Gee, but I'd like so

ns are bully, only there aren't enough of t

there by the wall. What time do you suppose they have breakfast? We'll h

s at the end of the room and several older boys and two or three men came down the room t

m!" he e

asked

ots like him," contin

at?" demanded the

He-he looks just like the fellow in the station,