titutions out West for larking, and father thought I better
go East awhile. Any fun doing out this way?"

"I suppose those that go to college looking for it can find it,"
answered Howard noncommittally.

"Well--that's what I'm looking for. That's about all anybody goes to
college for anyway, that and making a lot of friends. Believe me, it
would be a beastly bore if it wasn't for that. Al Cloud used to be a
lively one. I'll wager he's into everything. See much of the college
people down in town--do you?" He eyed his companion patronizingly.
"S'pose you get in on some of the spoahts now and then?"

"Oh, occasionally," said Howard with a twinkle in his eye. He was
captain of the football team and forward in basket-ball, but it didn't
seem to be necessary to mention it.

"Any fellows with any pep in them out here? I suppose there must be or
Al wouldn't stay unless he's changed. He used to keep things pretty
lively. That's one reason why I told dad I'd come out here. I like a
place with plenty of ginger. It gets my goat to be among a lot of
grinds and sissies! This is a co-ed college, isn't it? That suits me
all right if the girls have any pep and aren't too straitlaced. Any
place around here where you can go off and take a girl for a good
dinner and a dash of life? I couldn't stand for any good-little-boy
stuff. Know any place around here where you can get a drink of the
real thing now and then, some place near enough to go joy-riding to,
you know? I shall bring my cah of course----! One can get away with a
lot more stuff if they have their own cah, you know--especially where
there's girls. You can't pull off any devilment if you have to depend
on hired cahs. You might get caught. I suppose they have some pretty
spicy times down at the frat rooms, don't they? I understood the frats
were mostly located down in the town."

Howard suddenly folded his paper, looking squarely in the limpid eyes
of his seatmate for the first time, with a cold, searching, subduing
gaze.

"I really couldn't say," he answered coldly.

"Oh, I s'pose you're not interested in that sort of thing, not being
in college," said the other insolently. "But Al Cloud'll put me wise.
He's no grind, I'll wager. He's always in for a good time, and he's
such a good bluff he never gets found out. Now I, somehow, always get
caught, even when I'm not the guilty one."

The boy laughed unroariously as if it were a good joke, and his weak
chin seemed to grow w