You deserve it all and more." After a few moments
Professor Justice retired with the same stealthy step. There was
convulsive sobbing in Chief Paul's bed, and the other boys covered their
heads with their blankets in dread of a similar visitation.
The boy who suffered that night is now a brilliant judge and well known
politician. But he always believed that he had been punished for
changing beds and wondered not a little that his companion had escaped
similar castigation.
The boys were obliged to rise very early in the morning. The first duty
of the day was to proceed to the chapel for prayers, and religious
instruction. But many of the lads preferred to gather around the red hot
stove of the study hall where they could tend to their devotions with
more liberty and comfort than in the chilly chapel. If they were missed,
a professor was sent to ascertain their whereabouts. He was generally
discovered in time by the boy detailed by his companions as look out.
The study hall and dormitories formed a building separate from the rest
of the college. As the professor approached from the main building, the
boys would leap from the low windows of the study hall into the snow.
Sometimes the professor was suspicious and would reconnoiter outside the
study hall; but the boys were alert and as he passed around a corner,
they would get around another and so they often escaped to the chapel.
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