a frantic desire for fresh air, for some
other atmosphere than the stuffy gloom of churches and seminaries and
colleges. What do I care for that miserable little college on the hill,
full of your good little boys with their churchly conceits and bowings
and deadness? I want life, and I mean to have it. I will spend my money
as I see fit--for travel--for clothes--for luxury--for anything that
strikes my fancy--but never--never--never--for that college!"

A wild impulse swept over her to seize something and break it in
fragments on the floor, but seeing nothing fragile at hand in that
book-lined room, she stood still, trembling like an aspen leaf. The
bishop, little realising that she was driven to this extraordinary
transport by his treatment of Leigh, looked at her in stupefaction. It
seemed to him that her mother stood before him once more, though she had
never acted thus; but the mental attitude was the same. The mother had
thwarted his plans by leaving her money to the daughter, and now the
daughter would spend it as she willed. It was like a second defeat at
the hands of the same woman. And this was the flower he had cherished
with such pride, now scentless of spirituality and dead at the roots! He
rose to his feet, suddenly an old man, utterly bereft, and shook a
trembling finger in her face.

"You lack nothing of filling up your cup of wickedness," he quavered,
"but that you have refrained from making a physical attack upon me.
Felicity, God will punish you!"

The corners of her beautiful lips curled upward in cruel scorn, and she
swept from the room, slamming the door behind her. Presently he heard
the door of her own room closed with equal force, not once, but twice, as
if she had opened it again, and again slammed it shut, to give adequate
expression to her feelings. Completely bewildered, he wandered into the
hall, reached mechanically for his hat and coat, and went out into the
street.

Instinctively he turned his steps toward St. George's Hall, as if from
its contemplation he could derive comfort. Something, at least, had been
done toward realising his ideal, though far less than he had hoped to
accomplish. Many a graduate had gone forth from beneath the shadow of
that stately tower to win fame and applause in the great world. The
bishop knew most of them, and was known and loved by all. There were
bishops among them, and clergymen, and judges, and physicians, and some
who had freely given