TALKS WITH A KID BROTHER
more, they are all too old to have any effect upon the Discipline Committee. I'm mighty glad you did not offer any of them. I'm glad you just said it was so and that you had no explanation for it. They rather liked that.
You needn't look surprised. I knew all about it when I came here this evening. That's why I came. But you were too much up in the air at first. To tell the truth, you weren't very anxious to speak of it to me. So I tried to get you calmed down by telling you of a man in a much worse hole than yours.
Well, I haven't any influence with the faculty; nothing I could do or say would affect their decision one way or the other. If they make up their minds to ship you, you go.
Rather steep price, you say, to pay for your fun? But I haven't been thinking of you. I was thinking that you might not be the one to pay dearest for it. What do I mean? 'Tisn't the sort of thing one likes to speak of out loud; I was merely thinking—
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