With such adventures as these, two years of college life glided by and
then the parting came. Paul had progressed rapidly in his classes for
his was a character that applied itself to books, as devotedly as it did
to play. His best loved study was navigation, and he often surprised
the gray-haired old professor by his knowledge in this quarter. His
open, fearless nature had endeared him to his teachers and despite
the punishments; he had learned to love the college life so his going
was viewed with regret by both sides. The college was in its infancy
when Paul's name was on the pupil's roll. He returned to visit it some
years ago, to find it grown into one of the great educational
institutions of the land. Many of our brightest and best men lovingly
roll it their Alma Mater. The venerable president received him with open
arms. He put Paul's picture in his gallery of the boys who were a
credit to the institution, and both talked over old times and life's
many changes with emotion, and laughed heartily over certain well
remembered experiences. Paul felt a deep pang of remorse at the praise
and the welcome, for his memory bore another record.
During Paul's sojourn at college, his family had moved from Alleghany to
New York.
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