* * * * *
I saw Emma and Jack off at the train. I carried two of her grips for
her.
"Take Johnnie with you!" jovially shouted some of the boys--a motor car
full of them--Phi Alphs--as we stepped to the station platform....
She answered them with a jolly laugh, a wave of the hand....
"No, I'll leave him here ... you need a few like him with you!"
* * * * *
"I have something on my conscience," remarked Miss Silverman to me,
"Johnnie, do you really think that old professor was speaking the
truth?"
"I'm sure of it, Miss Silverman."
"Why, then, I'm heartily sorry ... and it was rough of me ... and will
you tell the professor for me that I sincerely apologise for having hurt
his feelings ... tell him I have so many jackasses attending my lectures
all over the country, who rise and say foolish and insincere things,
just to stand in well with the communities they live in--that sometimes
it angers me, their hypocrisy--and then I blaze forth pretty strong and
lay them flat!"
* * * * *
Professor Wilton was a Phi Alph. From that time he was spoken of as "the
only Phi Alph Virgin."
* * * * *
The periods when I had rested secure in the knowledge of where my next
meal was coming from, had been few. Life had pressed me close to its
ragged edge ever since I could remember.
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