become a son of Tate! An equal with "Shock" Shaw and Chester Trask. He was thrilled to the marrow by the very thought of it.
But the chairman had continued his remarks. He was on the point, Harold comprehended, of introducing "Chester Trask, one of the most distinguished, if not the most distinguished member of the present undergraduate body at Tate. Captain of the football team, chairman of the Junior Promenade committee, elected the most popular man at college. Gentlemen—Mr. Trask!"
Chester Trask arose easily and bestowed upon the company the frank, nonchalant smile that Harold had studied so minutely in the Tate "Tattler." As the applause gained in volume, the football leader thrust one hand into his pocket, wrote things on the tablecloth with his fork and lowered his eyes modestly. His clothes, Harold observed, did not follow the lines of the exaggerated models purchased by the Beau Brummels of Sanford High School from Klein's Kollege Klothes Emporium, on Main Street. They were of a more conservative hue, though the trousers were voluminously ballooned. At length the hand-clapping abated. The great young man was about to speak.
"I just want to say," Trask just wanted to say, "that we fellows now at Tate appreciate
