BY THE WAYSIDE "So there ends another chapter.

How many more to the end of the story?
How many more scenes till the farce is played out?
There is something flattering to one's vanity in this careless playing with fate; it is edifying, moreover, to sot circumstances at defiance in this way, now and then, to assert one's freedom.

Freedom! What a joke the word must be to whoever is pulling the wires and making us poor puppets dance at his pleasure.

Pity that we have to pay the piper so heavily for our involuntary jigging!" A passage from the letter Waymark wrote to his friend Casti, on the evening when his school-work came to an end.

That night he sought rest early, and slept well.