A COLLEGE EDUCATION
up the street, through the campus, climbed the stairs to his room and locked the door.
When a man does not appear at the club at meal time the natural inference is that he is a guest at some other club; and if he misses several meals in succession, his friends suppose him to be out of town, and ask his roommate where he went, if he has one; if not, they wait until the absent member comes back and tell him to account for himself, if they think of it.
All day Friday Elliot's napkin remained cornucopia-shaped in the tumbler. This was the way Willis, the waiter, preferred fixing them. That evening some one said, "Where's Bob?" "Gone home over Sunday, I suppose," another replied. Then, as nobody changed the subject, Downing remarked, "Wonder what's the matter with Bob lately? He's so blamed morose. Notice him last evening?"
"Got a remorse sour on, likely," suggested Cute Rankin, who knew what that meant.
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