Lee, who was light
on his feet, avoided the rush and ran for a side door, through which he
escaped into the house, leaving Gaston to rave and mutter, and at last
retreat into the street and hurry away.
Not until the man had disappeared did the Westerner leave the grounds.
Then he leaped the fence, and hurried back to the campus. Here a large
number of students were rollicking in the somewhat wild and reckless
student fashion, to their own great delight and the amusement of
hundreds of spectators.
CHAPTER XVIII.
FUN IN THE CAMPUS.
Under an elm in front of Durfee some students were gathering "fruit."
They began by collecting it from members of the Chickering set. Of all
the men in the college, the Chickering set were the most unpopular with
their fellow students. Their silliness and superciliousness were so
unbounded as to be disgusting to all sensible men. From the immaculate
Rupert, with his patent-leather shoes and shining tile, down to the
cowardly little lisper, Lew Veazie, they were alike detested. Hence it
came about that when Rupert Chickering appeared under the famous "fruit"
tree wearing a more than ordinarily gorgeous shirt, the cry of "Fruit!"
was immediately raised.
Rupert uttered an exclamation of dismay and turned to run.
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