"
Karl laughed, and, turning to his new acquaintance, said,--
"So they told me in the army; but I got through without. I never
tasted spirit but once, and then I didn't like it."
"I never have at all," said Ginniss simply. "I gave my mother a
promise, when I was twelve years old, that I never would; and I
never have."
Karl nodded.
"That's right," said he; "and all the better for you to have had
such a mother."
"You'd say that, Mr. Windsor, if you knew what she'd done for me.
There ain't many such mothers in any class," said the young man
heartily.
Karl looked at his new acquaintance with increasing favor, and found
something very attractive in his open, manly face, and the honest
smile with which he met his scrutiny.
"I hope you'll stay with us some time, Mr. Ginniss," said he
heartily.
"Thank you; but, I believe, only for one day. The journey was my
principal object in coming; and I must be at Antioch College again
in a week, or ten days at the outside."
"Tell me about the life there. I was at old Harvard, and never
visited any other college," said Karl; and the young men found
plenty of conversation, until, in the soft twilight, they came upon
the pleasant slope and vine-clad buildings of Outpost.
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