Had been imprinted in his memory in such vivid pictures that he must have rested there with greatly heightened senses before he had gone forth on this strange journey. And such was his telling that he made me.

Him and noticed that the long flat coastline of Killanak was slowly sinking behind the horizon. He became aware of the fact that he was venturing out farther than he had ever gone before. He made a check of the sun's. cheap prozac No use talking about it. I've got to be going. We have an eat to-night at Tucker's. " Part 2 Jeff came to his new life on the full tide of an enthusiasm that did not begin to ebb till near the close of his first semester. He lived in a new world one removed a million miles from the sordid one through which he had fought his way so many years. All the idealism of his nature went out in awe and veneration for his college. It stood for something he could not phrase something spiritually fine and intellectually strong. When he thought of the noble motto of the university "To Serve " it was always with a lifted emotion that was half a prayer. His professors went clothed in majesty. The chance! llor was of godlike dimensions. Even the seniors carried with them an impalpable aura of learning. The illusion was helped by reason of the very contrast between the jostling competition of the street and the academic air of harmony in which he now found himself. For the first time was lifted the sense of struggle that had always been with him. The outstanding notes of his boyhood had been poverty and meagerness. It was as if he and his neighbors had been flung into a lake where they must keep swimming to escape drowning. There had been no rest from labor. Sometimes the tragedy of disaster had swept over a family. But on the campus of the university he found the sheltered life. The echo of that battling world came to him only faintly. He began to make tentative friendships but in spite of the advice of his cousin they were with the men who did not count. Samuel Miller was an example. He was a big stodgy fellow with a slow mind which arrived at its convictions deliberatel! y. But when he had made sure of them he hung to his beliefs like a bulldog to a bone. It was this quality that one day brought them together in the classroom. An instructor tried to drive Miller into admitting he was wrong in an opinion. The boy refused to budge and the teacher became nettled. "Mr. Miller will know more when he doesn't know so much " the instructor snapped out. Jeff's instinct for fair play was roused at once all the more because of the ripple of laughter that came from the class. He spoke up quietly. "I can't see yet but that Mr. Miller is right sir. " "The discussion is closed " was the tart retort. After class the dissenters walked across to chapel together. "Poke the animal up with a stick and hear him growl " Jeff laughed airily. "Page always thinks a fellow ought to take his say-so as gospel " Miller commented. Most of the students saw in Jeff Farnum only a tallish young man thin as a rail not particularly well dressed negligent as to collar and tie. But Miller observed in the tanned face a tender humorous mouth ! and eager friendly eyes that looked out upon the world with a. fsef5e4e485e844u4jj4dzjsjdn