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THE DAILY SHORT STORY

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Friendly Smile

head.

Hurrying through the cold, January Esau blinked, shook his night Esau was conscious of a feel- Pshaw! What an imagination he had! ing of guilt. Floyd Woolsey, chair- Directly behind him an owl hooted man of the sophomore Tau Kappa weirdly. He started, flung a startled initiation committee; had told him to look over his shoulder. But the road report at the bonfire pit. He should, behind was deserted.

heaved

hard

white

of course, have obeyed the order, He looked back toward, the burying Things would go pretty

with ground and froze in his tracks. Al- shivered. He remembered that Cederic most under his nose a filmy Goff had told him. Cederic, naturally figure rose and stared at him solemn- timid, had refused to obey a similar ly. But, no, the figure wasn't look- order and the sophomores had come ing at him. It was standing with up to his room and taken him down bowed head, staring down at its own. to the river and

him in. hands. Cederic couldn't swim and they'd had Esau. tried hard to be brave, but to haul him out.

he knew his heart was thumping and Esau couldn't swim either, but he that there was cold sweat on his fore- looked more rugged than Ced. Sup-head. His impulse was to whistle, to pose no one hauled him out? He saunter along, ignoring the figures.

graveyard fence with shivered again, this time not from beyond the thoughts of the icy water closing, over studied indifference, Unconsciously he his head. Perhaps he was making puckered his lips. "But before he could a mistake in disobeying the orders. utter a sound one of the white-clad Involuntarily his hand closed over the figures threw its arms into the air letter in his jacket pocket. The hand- and skrieked. It was a wild, inhu- writing was unmistakably that of. Joy man shriek, and was instantly taken Before Esau's Metcalf. There was an urgent plea up by the others.

the in what she had written. He must startled eyes they all rushed to meet her up near the water tank at centre of the graveyard as though by huddled eight sharp. It was important. a given signal. Here: they

Esau's heart increased its beat. Joy like a football team deciding its next: Metcalf had ash blond hair and soft play. A muttering and moaning came

By Stanley Cordell

Then

brown eyes..and a charmingly petite from the centre of the group. figure. He had seen her the first day suddenly they sprang apart and start- he arrived at college and she had ed toward Esau, shrieking and wav- smiled at him. To Esau that smile ing their. arms.

was more than a. friendly gesture on If Esau. had had time to think and the part of a Sophomore co-ed for an reason, if the fact that his own bold- incoming Freshman.

ness in disobeying Big Floyd's orders

he one

He made inquiries and learned that hadn't struck a queer sense of fright she was the property of Big Floyd to his heart, he might have acted other- Woolsey, varsity fullback and pre wise. But in the fletting second sident of Tau Kappa. But this fact stood rooted in his tracks only and the fact that the Freshman rules thought came to his mind: To run: forbade "all Freshmen talking to co- 'eds on week days didn't daunt Esau..

So he turned and ran; heart pound-

He made every attempt he could. to ing, terror and panic in his eyes. Be- encounter Joy. Metcalf. She was al- hind him he heard the pound of pursu ways friendly and Esau guessed she ing footbeats on the frozen road sur- felt toward him as he did toward her, face.

· Esau "didn't stop to reason. He The water tank was deserted when Esau reached it. He glanced at, his ran wildly, without definite destination Presently he found watch. Seven fifty-five. He heard and purpose. the clock on the administration build- himself on College street. He saw a of ing bong out the hour of eight. Scud- great bonfire and a great crowd ding clouds obscured the moon. Sud people. He headed toward them, for denly it was very dark, for there were to him they meant sanctity,

On the very outskirts of the crowd no street lights here. An owl hooted close by. He heard the rush of an Esau tripped and went sprawling. Stunned, he lay still for a moment, unseen body.

Striking a match, Esau glanced at but presently he sat up, staring wide- his watch again. Eight-thirty. Gradi- eyed. Grinning faces stared down at ally a sense of being tricked beset him. The three ghosts were watch- him. He didn't know why exactly ing him solemnly. Floyd Woolsey Joy's note had said eight o'clock sharp, was reading something from a paper. He waited five minutes more. The A boy, standing beside Floyd opened. owl owls hooted again.. Curiously he felt his mouth and hooted like that he wasn't alone, that unseen eyes and grinned down at Esau.

Floyd Woolsey said: "This is it, were peering, at him out of the dark-

an

ness. The moon appeared from be- boys. This is the epitaph you were hind a cloud. He thought he detected supposed to copy from the centre a skulking figure dart behind the gravestone. By the way, what's this tank. He started back along the road, you brought back with you?" He Dimly against the sky he saw a looked at Esau. But Esau only heard faint, red glow, They had started a him dimly, only knew. vaguely what blaze in the bonfire pit. Perhaps if a fool he'd made of himself, was only he hurried he could get there in time, faintly aware, of the shouting of the He quickened his pace. At the corner crowd--for bow boside Floyd he saw of: Bagdad Road, and Maple Lane he another figure. The figure was that halted. To the right was the village of lovely Joy, Metcalf, She was look- burbing - ground, The headstones ing at him, and this time she wasn't gleamed whitely in the moonlight, smiling in friendly fashion. She was Baau sucked In His breath; Two white grinning with the others. garbed figures flitting among the... (Copyright, 1998, By The Associat stones.

ed Newspapers).