CHAPTER IV.
NEIL MAKES ACQUAINTANCES Neil's and Paul's college life began early the next morning when, sitting side by side in the dim, hushed chapel, they heard white-haired Dr.Garrison ask for them divine aid and guidance.

Splashes and flecks of purple and rose and golden light rested here and there on bowed head and shoulders or lay in shafts across the aisles.

From where he sat Neil could look through an open window out into the morning world of greenery and sunlight.

On the swaying branch of an elm that almost brushed the casement a thrush sang sweet and clear a matin of his own.

Neil made several good resolutions that morning there in the chapel, some of which he profited by, all of which he sincerely meant.