him out
every afternoon, and each day, just as the clock strikes five, he knocks
over a strange young man for me. It is delightful sport. But he has
never found any young man that he enjoyed as heartily as he did you."

Gravely he moved toward the door. "I must return to my work. You will
tell your aunt I have given notice? Well--good-evening."

"_Good_-evening, Mr. Queed."

The door half shut upon him, but opened again to admit his head and
shoulders.

"By the way, there was a curious happening yesterday which might be of
interest to you. Did you see it in the _Post_--a small item headed 'The
Two Queeds'?"

"Oh--no! About you and Tim?"

"About Tim, but not about me. His beat was changed the other day, it
seems, and early yesterday morning a bank in his new district was broken
into. Tim went in and arrested the burglar after a desperate fight in
the dark. When other policemen came and turned on the lights, Tim
discovered to his horror that he had captured his brother Murphy."

XVIII

_Of President West of Old Blaines College, his Trustees and his
Troubles; his Firmness in the Brown-Jones Hazing Incident so
misconstrued by Malicious Asses; his Article for the Post, and why
it was never printed: all ending in West's Profound Dissatisfaction
with the Rewards of Patriotism._

The way of Blaines College was not wholly smooth that winter, and
annoyances rose to fret the fine edge of President West's virgin
enthusiasms. The opening had been somewhat disappointing. True, there
were more students than last year, the exact increment being nine. But
West had hoped for an increase of fifty, and had communicated his
expectations to the trustees, who were correspondingly let down when the
actual figures--total enrolment, 167--were produced at the October
meeting. The young president explained about the exasperating delays in
getting out his advertising literature, but the trustees rather hemmed
over the bills and said that that was a lot of money. And one of them
bluntly called attention to the fact that the President had not assumed
his duties till well along in September.

West, with charming humility and good humor, asked indulgence for his
inexperience. His mistake, he said, in giving an excess of time to the
study of the great collegiate systems of the old world, if it was a
mistake, was one that could hardly be repeated. Next year ...

"Meantime," said the blunt trustee, "you've go